Except the one without a bright future is Win32. Since Vista all major APIs are ...

emddudley · on Oct 10, 2019

My point is that for the vast majority of developers this does not matter one bit. The Windows API is not relevant to the work that most developers do today. In the cases where a developer actually needs to interact with Windows there are easier technologies available.

pjmlp · on Oct 11, 2019

Yeah, if we are talking about web developers I guess.

How do you think those easier technologies are implemented?

Just to give an example, React Native for Windows uses UWP.

As for not being relevant, the software for a platform with 80% market share across desktop and laptops, does not write itself.