Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th May 2008 12:53 UTC, submitted by Adam S
A few weeks ago, Ars published part one in a series called "From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X". In this series, Peter Bright details why he believes "Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it". Part one dealt with the history of both Windows and the Mac OS, and part two deals with .Net, the different types of programmers, and Windows Vista.
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The OP is correct. QT, and by extension KDE, has a very nice, clean API. I can't compare it to MacOS X as I am not familiar with theirs, but let me say this: If you're programming on Windows and don't want to deal with the platform nonsense, you can escape a lot of it by using QT. You gain some portability in the bargain.
But probably the article's author would not find QT a useful answer. His complaints mention win32 often, but he's not so much complaining about the strange/horrid GUI APIs as he is about the platform as a whole (e.g. file locations).