I won't make any bones about it, Win32 is an awful, outdated API. Something better without having to fight with all the awkward legacy C-isms, WPARAMs, LPARAMs, awful Hungarian notation and "overloaded" functions would be nice.

But I've mostly learned to take a wait and see attitude with new silver bullet APIs from Microsoft. Sometimes they take off and really do became the way forward, but far, far too often, after some initial hype, there is a lack of uptake, they wither on the vine, and then are abandoned for the new shiny, leaving behind the developers that did invest in them.

Meanwhile, Win32, like the Dude, abides.