Windows Native App Development Is a Mess

I’m a Windows guy; I always have been. One of my first programming books was Beginning Visual C++ 6 , which crucially came with a trial version of Visual C++ that my ten-year-old self could install on my parents’ computer. I remember being on a family vacation when .NET 1.0 came out, working my way through a C# tome and gearing up to rewrite my Neopets cheating programs from MFC into Windows…