On: State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?

[creshal]

Look at Autohotkey for a starter down the rabbit hole of "we don't need APIs, we have a GUI!" and the fallout of people desperately working around it.

[_nub3 → creshal]

The good old days with AHK. I remember writing the winsock wrapper library and httpquery wrapper back then, software of which i hope has been long superseeded by now.

[williamdclt → creshal]

AHK was how I started programming, good times. When I switched to Linux, this was the main thing that I missed (and I still kind of do on MacOS)