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In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful... (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] UnityDevice@startrek.website 25 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[โ€“] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes I read it. It's brand new legacy code ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

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

So yes: instant legacy code. Win32 is dead.