[domenicd]

Ahah, I knew I missed one!

I originally had ATL in there, but my proofreading squad (Claude and ChatGPT) told me that ATL was a more niche thing for COM, and looking at the Wikipedia article I was convinced they were right.

But WTL was what I was thinking of---the step between the MFC and .NET that I forgot.

[int_19h]

WTL was never a "step between the MFC and .NET" in any meaningful sense. It was more like a very lightweight subset of MFC+ATL, never officially supported or recommended, just something that Microsoft used internally that it decided to publish and then community picked up.

[odkeidjwidj]

> but my proofreading squad (Claude and ChatGPT) told me

With all due respect (seriously): fuck off man

This is why you don’t use these stupid fucking tools for this

[badsectoracula]

> This is why...

...but they were correct. The GP just didn't remember the proper name and asked about a different thing.