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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

by cjk2 2y 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.

chipdart 2y 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.