Netwake Alternatives

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WSL

406 16,613 8.3 PowerShell netwake VS WSL

Issues found on WSL
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)

273 21,453 9.9 C# netwake VS Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)

.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
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mimalloc

35 9,415 8.7 C netwake VS mimalloc

mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.
D3D11On12

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The Direct3D11-On-12 mapping layer

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Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games
3 projects | /r/programming | 11 Oct 2022

I wrote one to try. It also uses runtime feature detection to enable modern stuff like theming and high-DPI on Windows version that support it.
The Windows Malloc() Implementation Is a Trash Fire
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2022

> Ideally you'd like to build for all targets, including older systems, from a single, modern environment (this is trivial in Windows)
https://github.com/sjmulder/netwake does what you're talking about, but it does a lot of gymnastics to make it work, and it also needs to use MinGW rather than MSVC.
Windows 11: a survey of text boxes
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Sep 2021

> if you wrote a Windows Desktop app in the last 30 years, the only way it would still be supported today ... is if it was based directly on the old Win32 API
I thought the same and did just that to see if it holds true: https://github.com/sjmulder/netwake
By default you get Windows 95 styling and Windows 3 fonts. You have to opt into 'visual styles' (introduced in XP) with a declaration in the app manifest and have to manually query and use the system font. DPI awareness is also opt in and puts all the work (sizing/positioning, scaling/reloading fonts) on you. But when you do that, it does look fine on Windows 10.
Not so much on Windows 11. Some of the widgets have been updated to mimic the new style but when you put it together it looks messy and old fashioned (e.g. fonts + you don't get the new context menus).
I'm curious to learn how one would create a 'proper' Windows app without having to reimplement the system's widget styling.
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