On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 05:47:11 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
It's like saying "everything you need is assembly language" when talking about languages and compilers. Pure WinAPI is a cruel advice for a novice.
He's not a novice: he wrote console applications that pushed through complexity limit. Writing complex GUI application in winapi is cruel, but for hello world it's fine and gives good understanding of principles. To use GUI frameworks one must understand both underlying principles and abstractions rolled on top of them.
