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.
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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.