I want to go back to making desktop programs the way we used to before they turned into web apps that bundled chrome. I know I should just use Qt but I have some experience already with win32, and all the programs I have fond memories of are written with it (foobar2000, winamp, Everything, etc).

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purerandomness 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You might like https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

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swinglock 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Win32 and Wine being a lightweight alternative to HTML and Electrum is a fun idea.

	▲	Rohansi 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wine is going to require at least as much disk space as Electron. Performance and memory usage should at least be better though.

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wizzwizz4 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you considered Tk? Visually, it's quite like Win32, but it's fully cross-platform and (as of Tcl 9.0) has basic screen-reader support – so no mucking around with OLEACC shims or IAccessible2, as you'd need for COMCTL32. And it supports virtually everything Win32 does, with the ability to drop down to platform-specific sorcery (i.e., Win32) if the need arises.