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In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful... (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[โ€“] UnityDevice@startrek.website 25 points 10 months 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 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

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

So yes: instant legacy code. Win32 is dead.