MFC never went away. And you can target winNT all the way to win11
But it was/is complex to learn, no?
OP asked for best way, not easiest
Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
#102Flutter is not a bad choice if you want to build a cross platform app.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
#103Microsoft is using React Native for Windows [0] for their Office applications [1]. As a fan of RN this would be the first avenue I’d explore if I had to develop something for Windows. [0] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/ [1] https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/resources-s...
Facebook Messenger uses React Native. WhatsApp Desktop uses WinUI. WhatsApp is superior. I don't get React Native. It's such a huge, complicated abstraction with no ability to performance tweak. I don't understand how a company as big as Facebook doesn't have enough resources to build native apps for each platform. These UIs are the simplest app you could build as well.
> Facebook Messenger uses React Native.
This is misleading at best, if not outright wrong.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
#104Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
#105[aardio]( https://aardio.com/ ) I have been using aardio to develop desktop software for more than 4 years. I have developed many software. It is designed specifically for Windows desktop. - Based on the syntax of Lua and JS, if you have one of these 2 foundations, you can get started in 1 hour. - Comes with an IDE, developing, compiling, debugging, rich standard libraries and sample code. - Support WYSIWYG UI contro…
Is there an english version of the site?
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
#106Flutter is not a bad choice if you want to build a cross platform app.
Yeah, I’ve done Flutter for Windows only and it was actually quite pleasant.
There is even a dart package which recreates the Windows ui very well!
And the builds was very small! Barely a couple of MBs.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to build a desktop app in Windows in 2023?
#107[aardio]( https://aardio.com/ ) I have been using aardio to develop desktop software for more than 4 years. I have developed many software. It is designed specifically for Windows desktop. - Based on the syntax of Lua and JS, if you have one of these 2 foundations, you can get started in 1 hour. - Comes with an IDE, developing, compiling, debugging, rich standard libraries and sample code. - Support WYSIWYG UI contro…
Is there an english version of the site?
sorry, no.