[madhadron]

This puzzles me as well. Win32 is fine. If you download Dolphin Smalltalk or Corman Lisp or Free Pascal/Lazarus, they're still targeting Win32 for GUIs. Especially since, with Wine, Win32 GUIs are effectively cross platform.

[donor20]

What boggles the mind is the insane peoplepower they have poured into the redo redo redo here. They spin up huge documents on MSDN, platform toolkits etc.

Instead of trying to chase every random idea out there if they'd just gone deep on Win32 (now effectively x-platform) I think they could have gone a LOT further / faster. The new setups are also super complex and feel a lot more brittle by the time you build out all the toolchain.

Maybe my memory is going, but powering up VS and doing stuff was quick on windows in the past, now it's GB's of junk to just say hello world.