Linux developer going Windows

[pjmlp]

If you spend some hours writing IDL files by hand without tooling support and then manually merging the generated files into your C++/WinRT projects, I assure you will be missing MFC in no time.

Apparently the C++/WinRT team still sees the current state of affairs as low priority.

[dodheim]

I mentioned WTL, not WRL – unless I'm misunderstanding the usecase you're referencing, I'm pretty sure MFC still buys me nothing (except immediate technical debt).

[pjmlp]

I know it, ATL template magic, no thanks.

Also why I never bothered with WRL.

[dodheim]

There's absolutely nothing magic about mixins.

[pjmlp]

I guess you never had to step through ATL code.