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Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful by alok-g on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:47AM (#40845302)
Winamp comes to mind as a counter example.
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Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful by hermitdev on Monday July 01, 2024 @12:21PM (#40847300)
IMO, every media player since Winamp 2.x has been largely a step _backwards_ in pretty much every metric one could put forth. It was light-weight, using minimal CPU & RAM. It was skinable. It was reliable. It had great plugin support. I don't recall it leaking memory, either. I basically had it set to auto run on login on my PC. I never closed it. Didn't need to. I had _only_ 32MB of RAM on that computer.
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Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful by alok-g on Monday July 01, 2024 @12:51PM (#40847646)
+1.

I still use Winamp, and essentially in its 2.x mode.

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