I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)

Re:I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no f... by Johanx64 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @06:05PM (#43957557)

It's just the way it should be.

Other language doesn't fundamentally change anything if you want to use win32 API, if anything it would make things more confusing.

People often fall prey to C++isms, and they would have made the whole thing an even more confusing mess (to people not familiar with win32 API).

This is a very cute thing to do and some familiarity with win32 APIs is a nice basic competency thing, regardless of what other people think.

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Re:I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no f... by int_19h on Monday May 12, 2025 @01:18PM (#43965353)

C++ actually makes a lot of sense specifically for Win32 API because RAII takes care of releasing all the numerous handles at the right time in the right manner. Also, things like string operations are a pain in pure C (indeed, this app uses stuff like strcpy which is a recipe for buffer overruns etc).

WTL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Template_Library) is the oldschool way to do low-level Win32 coding in C++.

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