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Comment by creshal

4 years ago

Look at Autohotkey for a starter down the rabbit hole of "we don't need APIs, we have a GUI!" and the fallout of people desperately working around it.

The good old days with AHK. I remember writing the winsock wrapper library and httpquery wrapper back then, software of which i hope has been long superseeded by now.

AHK was how I started programming, good times. When I switched to Linux, this was the main thing that I missed (and I still kind of do on MacOS)