alt Hacker NewsSeems like complaining about how difficult to use Win32 and COM are. And they are if you use them directly! You don't do that - you use libraries that others have sweated over, as you did with raylib.
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bjourne • today at 4:53 PM
Here is how to get Win32 up and running: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/y...
It's absolutely trivial in comparison. Same thing with Xlib; < 100 lines of C code is enough for a simple app.
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Exactly my impression. And honestly, X11 isn't exactly beautiful like the author is implying. A lot of the same wayland complaints they are putting here apply to X11. The main difference is that wayland is apparently handling the event loop for you while X11 expects you to set that up yourself.
Win32 has exactly the same setup of problems here as wayland does. Moreso because Win32 just gives you back opaque handles which you are expected to keep track of and use the Win32 API to do any meaningful interactions.
The only understandable complaint is that wayland makes it hard for different windows to interact with one another for security. IMO, that's a silly goal to chase after, but that's just me.