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cjk2 | 1 year ago

I have a lot of experience, in the real world, which is somewhat less ideal than "just use Qt - it's a breeze".

How do you manage a 15 million LOC desktop app originating from the late 90s which contains chunks of win32 native, ATL, MFC, custom GDI+ wrappers all sorts?

Aye you fuck off and work somewhere else that's what you do. Which is why it's still written in win32 native, ATL, MFC, custom GDI+ wrappers.

They paid two companies to come in and rewrite it, first in Qt which was a complete failure. Then in Electron etc, which was also a failure.

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chipdart|1 year ago

> How do you manage a 15 million LOC desktop app originating from the late 90s which contains chunks of win32 native, ATL, MFC, custom GDI+ wrappers all sorts?

You're complaining about your personal legacy "chunks of win32 native, ATL, MFC, custom GDI+ wrappers".

Not C++. Just your personal legacy projects you didn't managed to maintain or update.

C++ doesn't magically rewrite your technical debt. You need to do your work.