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Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistenci... by creshal on Saturday June 19, 2021 @02:11AM (#27558208)
Look at Autohotkey for a starter down the rabbit hole of "we don't need APIs, we have a GUI!" and the fallout of people desperately working around it.
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Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistenci... by _nub3 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:57AM (#27558685)
The good old days with AHK. I remember writing the winsock wrapper library and httpquery wrapper back then, software of which i hope has been long superseeded by now.
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Re:State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistenci... by williamdclt on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:18AM (#27560211)
AHK was how I started programming, good times. When I switched to Linux, this was the main thing that I missed (and I still kind of do on MacOS)
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