Comment by moochamerth

A couple of years ago I played a bit with Go and Win32.

I got to the point that I could create windows and controls, and had a basic message loop working.

I then started dabbling in painting in non-client areas. It was buggy and didn't work well (my fault), but then I could see 2-3 different Windows UI styles competing to draw the window chrome.

The amount of crumbs hidden under the Windows carpet is incredible.