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June 30th, 2024 | Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful

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This chapter explores the difficulties in developing GUI applications on Windows, including problems with WinUI 3 dependencies, Qt licensing complexities, and unsuitable styling choices with WX widgets. The author advocates for using Dear Imgui due to its simplicity, while commenters deliberate on the importance of custom UI styling and compare different GUI libraries like WinForms, WPF, SwiftUI, and Imgoy.

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