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criddell on Dec 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising ...

> And C++/WinRT tooling is so back to the 90's that even using MFC feels more fun.

I work on a large MFC project and it's still a surprisingly nice way to develop desktop applications. It's fast, old, and stable.

Using some of the newer Windows APIs in MFC can be painful though (e.g. XAML Islands).

pjmlp on Dec 29, 2021 [–]

For anyone starting on C++/WinRT today without major Windows background, I would just recommend them to read a book on ATL from early 2000, most of the tooling is the same, this is how "modern" it feels like.

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