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Re:Technical Vision for Qt 6 by Const-me on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:03PM (#20637212)
> Microsoft is the only consumer OS vendor that still supports C++ for doing full stack GUI apps

On modern Windows you have C++, and also layout DSL, specifically XAML. And that C++ is not particularly idiomatic, it’s IUnknown-derived interfaces.

If you mean windows desktop, WinAPI uses quite a few DSLs. Dialog and menu resources are the most obvious, but there’s more: WMF/EMF vector graphics format, ribbon markup XML for ribbon control, theme files…

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Re:Technical Vision for Qt 6 by pjmlp on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @05:01PM (#20639012)
You are talking about Win32 legacy API, stuck in Windows XP feature level.

Modern Windows desktop UI, UWP aka WinUI, uses C++17 with a framework called C++/WinRT, that hides those IInspectable COM interfaces.

Yes there used to exit C++/CX and Windows Runtime Library, both now considered legacy and replaced by C++/WinRT.

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