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Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
Why trying to write GUI apps for Windows causes me physical pain
Only Windows support required Commercial use allowed Easy styling, including dark mode The result should be a single .exe file with no or minimal dependencies and a size of less than 40MB Writing the GUI part of the program should not take more time than the actual functionality After trying to compile the example for more than 30 minutes (including different branches and release tags), the only thing I got was an executable that would immediately crash with an access violation inside some Vulkan library, so I just gave up. If you ask about C++ GUI libraries for Windows on some random forums, most of the time you will be told that it’s a bad idea (not arguing with that), and that you should instead write the frontend of the program in some other stack and then just load your functionality written in C++ as a component/module.
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