> Comparing the comprehensive Win32 API reference against the incidentally documented Native APIs, its clear which one Microsoft would prefer you use. The native API is treated as an implementation detail, whilst core parts of Windows' backwards compatibility strategy are implemented in Windows subsystem.
> A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Zig clearly doesn't actually care that much about building robust and reusable software if they're going to forgo Microsoft's decades-long backwards compatibility functionality for the dubious gains of using bare-metal APIs.
> A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Zig clearly doesn't actually care that much about building robust and reusable software if they're going to forgo Microsoft's decades-long backwards compatibility functionality for the dubious gains of using bare-metal APIs.