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In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful... (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As they point out at the end, this wasn't about the old control panel, but the new settings panel. It's all brand new code.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes I read it. It's brand new legacy code 😅

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[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago

Sounds like they are developing win32 code. The resource id nonsense is very win32.

So yes: instant legacy code. Win32 is dead.

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