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How does Windows programming make you feel, /prog/?

I just finished my first job. It was a 2 month internship where I had to do some stuff in C with the win32 api. I've always used unix-like system before so I had no idea how things should be done on Windows. All my knowledge of posix, signals, networking, process, ... was almost useless.

Ok, so the win32 api is definitely ugly. Some stuff are deprecated/replaced by newer functions but the old stuff is still kept for compatibility reasons. So you end up with a bunch of useless functions or unused parameters. The api is also pretty complex and not very consistent both in structure and in style. Fortunately the doc (MSDN) is pretty good and I managed to finish my project in time. One nice thing though, is that all parts of the system (desktop, gui, device, ...) is exposed via the same api and it's portable on a reasonable subset of Windows versions. Coming from a world where almost every of those components might be different, it's really refreshing.