Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity?
by peterhunt on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:22PM
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My understanding is that none of the core Microsoft apps like Office were built on MFC. In MFC projects I worked on, generally the simple stuff was built with MFC and anything more complex was built with the win32 API.
Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity?
by stiray on Monday January 02, 2023 @02:37PM
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Actually MFC uses windows api, but this does not change anything, it is still 1997 API. And we are in year 2023 with worse UI, i would expect it to be in reverse.
"generally the simple stuff", no:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/mfc/media/mfc_heirarchy...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/mfc/media/mfc_heirarchy...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/mfc/media/mfc_heirarchy...
MFC had its set of problems which were related to things like passing messages between windows, but all those are on another level.
Please DO open Word 97 (and this is 26 years old UI) and compare it with the best done web UI you are aware of, regardless of framework, as long it is not QT compiled into webasm (as this is the only thing in web that comes close).