[novagameco]

The Windows APIs like types more than POSIX, which likes to use integers for everything (though windows uses handles a lot)

Also The Windows API pattern is typically:

1. Initialize a "descriptor" struct

2. Pass that descriptor struct by reference to a "create" function

3. Get ComPtr<> for resource

Where a ComPtr<> is a smart pointer that manages the lifecycle of an object across different processes

Also Windows built UTF-16 support into their APIs 30 years ago, so a lot of API calls involve constructing UTF-16 literals