minimal-win32-app

There's something elegant about https://github.com/LeZuse/minimal-win32-app/blob/master/main... I remember just how painful working with the Win32 API could be (a lifetime ago), but I felt like I really understood how it worked. These days, it's layer upon layer of abstractions. Or bindings from my language of choice to an abstraction layer/framework running on the native OS. I couldn't begin to explain how many of the popular UI frameworks work, all the way down to the native OS layer. There was something substantial, concrete in programming at this layer rather than some higher level, fragile abstraction.

Pretty basic Window creation and message loop code, but its nice to see a starting example in Go. For comparison here is a C version: https://github.com/LeZuse/minimal-win32-app/blob/master/main... The C code does basically the same thing but ends up being smaller because the Go code doesn't have an equivalent of windows.h with function and data type definitions. The Go code might be a little nicer if it used a Win32 API wrapper, but there doesn't seem to be a well supported and documented one out there. This was all I could find https://github.com/AllenDang/w32.