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Easier?

You can get a functional, graphical, Hello World! WinForms app running in like 10 seconds, ok, perhaps 20 seconds if your computer is slow

I can teach anybody with very basic programming skills to build something fancy in like 2 hours

No idea about Mac environment, but I guess it must be similar.

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I’m not trying to ship hello world, I’m trying to ship a 100k line frontend with 60fps animations, PDF export, video and audio recording, and 3rd party html rendering. Try doing that with WinForms - the batteries are very much not included. Windows APIs are just a mess.

And if I succeed then my prize is what? I get to do it again on two other platforms?

For some reason Windows apis are like hieroglyphs to me — coming from Mac Storyboard/ UIKit conventions…

Any advice?

The WinApi is too low level for most developers and situations.

Usually, you won't need to directly call any API function to build even a complex program.

.NET comes with everything included

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