[ada0000]

Microsoft has the resources to train people.

[HPsquared]

But does any junior want to learn C++ Win32? You want to learn something that leads to a long-term career development path, not a sunsetting technology.

[ada0000]

They would want to learn Winforms/WPF/WinUI/whatever if microsoft could settle on one and use it. I suppose part of the react native stuff is that Microsoft hasn’t done a good job of making people, even in Microsoft, bet the farm on any of their “native” toolkits.

[0cf8612b2e1e]

For money, anything is possible. That’s the employment contract, trade money for time doing things you would rather not.

[nineteen999]

The delulu who think C/C++ is "sunsetting". Hilarious.

[wtetzner]

> But does any junior want to learn C++ Win32?

I'm pretty sure Microsoft can pay them enough to be happy to learn it.

> You want to learn something that leads to a long-term career development path, not a sunsetting technology.

This seems like such an odd take when web frameworks seem to be obsolete almost as soon as you start using them. C++ has and will continue to be around for a very long time.

This is just the result of bad leadership at Microsoft.

[hulitu]

> But does any junior want to learn C++ Win32?

That's why they got the job, didn't they ? /s