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Actually I would agree that win32 is more stable once you get the hang of it. I have worked with WPF, Winforms, MFC and win32. win32 was by far the most complete, predictable and flexible environment. It takes a lot of learning and you can't just let anybody work on the codebase. But once you know what you are doing and maybe have some simple wrappers for routine stuff it's pretty good.



Coming from MS-DOS and Amiga as background, I was amazed how Win16 was a productivity changer (for the better).

It is funny to see people bashing it nowadays, given how I came to enjoy it.

When I started GUI coding on UNIX, Xlib, Xt and Motif on the other hand were anything but productive.




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