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From: Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: xxd -i vs DIY Was: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 14:40:16 +0200
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Am 30.05.2024 um 13:23 schrieb bart:
> On 30/05/2024 02:31, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>> On 30/05/2024 01:18, bart wrote:
>>> On 29/05/2024 22:46, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> 
>>>> Baby X can't compete.
>>>
>>> Huh? I didn't know Baby X was an OS!
>>>
>>>
>> Its an API. You call the Baby X API to get buttons and menus and other 
>> graphical elements, instead of Windows APIs. And it has just got its 
>> own file system.
> 
> Hardly anybody uses the WinAPI directly.

There are still a lot of desktop-appliatons written with MFC.
MFC is nearly without abstraction and feels like a more productive
WinAPI for GUI-purposes.

> 
> Everyone uses wrapper libraries, usually cross-platform. Ones like GTK, 
> SDL, Raylib, maybe even OpenGL.
> 
> Those are your competitors, although I'm not sure which one corresponds 
> more closely with what BBX does (which I thought was also cross-platform?)
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by having its own file system. But I don't 
> use the file system calls of WinAPI either; I use the C standard library.
>