Comment by josephg

> Not even close to being true. You can invoke syscalls directly,

The windows syscall API is yet another proprietary windows API. Sure - you can call it without loading any DLLs. But you're still calling into a proprietary windows API.

If you really hate calling proprietary windows APIs that much, maybe stop developing for windows? Develop software for linux. Or make your own kernel, or whatever. But if you keep developing software for windows, stop fighting it. Unless you have a very good reason, your software should try to fit in on its host platform. It should behave well, and work like other windows software.

It's like travel. If you fly to France, try to fit in. Maybe learn a bit of French before you go. If you hate France, don't go.