Is it worth it to wrap WINAPI

Feb 20, 2014 at 7:20am
With all the free tools such as QT, GTK, etc. Is it worth the effort to make a gui library from my sdk?
Feb 20, 2014 at 9:33am
Is it worth it
That question hasn't stopped the plethora of libraries that are written.

If you think it's worth it and are prepared to do that work, then go ahead.
Feb 20, 2014 at 10:22am
IMNSHO, no. The only qualifiers I'd put on that are two.

First, if you do cross-platform work and want to have a codebase common to both, then its reasonable.

Second, if you are too lazy, untalented, or otherwise indisposed to learn the underlying technologies wrapped by class frameworks, e.g., COM, etc., but nontheless wish to use them, then you'll need a class framework, wizzards, etc., as a crutch, to help you pull off what you are attempting.

In terms of making one's own, it was doing exactly that which turned me off so badly regarding them. Because when you do that you see very clearly that you are adding nothing more than bulk to your code base, with no increase in functionality whatsoever. Everything soon becomes a wrapper on a wrapper on top of another wrapper.
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