Interesting little article about the utter clustermess that is writing desktop apps for Windows. Fortunately I’m not in that business. For something like Linux that has always been criticised for being sprawling the solution has been “just use Qt” for 30 years and it’s been pretty much perfect.

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/03/13/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold/

Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold

A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…

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@chakie Good read. I started my career in Windows development, and still have a copy of the Petzold’s book somewhere. Switched to Apple dev after the release of the first iOS SDK and haven’t looked back. The mess becomes even messier each time I check on the state of things in Windows-land