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z500last Monday at 1:30 PM2 repliesview on HN

Is it a lost art or does nobody do it more than they have to because it was always such bear?


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self_awarenesslast Monday at 4:21 PM

Definitely a lost art.

It's not all about WinAPI, it's about the approach.

Today's approach is "let me use electron for GUI and python backend for my bitcoin monitoring app because it's convenient for me". This results in bundling 1 GB of code for a trivial project which is a pain to use.

And the "legacy" approach is "let me use masm32 and winapi because it will be enough".

breakingcupslast Monday at 3:15 PM

Those aren't mutually exclusive