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Yes and I'd blame that on Qt more than anything else because they take C++ and bring it into their own magical world but it is very frail

Borland C++ interfaces for windows were better than anything else, MFC were a far 2nd place. .NET/C# made it useful again



OWL and VCL for the win!

Microsoft still doesn't have any tooling that comes close to C++ Builder. C++/CX was almost there, but then internal politics killed it.




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