Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
I built a Win 3.1 app during a company hackathon just for fun. Here, I detail learnings and process for how a new old app can be created with the aid of modern tools and hindsight of old technologies. And perhaps what lessons can it offer us today.<p>Without the benefit of modern libraries and languages, I had to read up and take care of many low level details, socket programming, HTTP, JSON parsing, UI design in code all under tight memory constraints. Nevertheless, it was a terrific lesson in understanding how things work under the hood.<p>I had to do things the old-fashioned way reading books and header files due to the dearth of online documentation. I can empathise with the plight of the programmers of yesteryears who had to code without the benefit of online search engines.<p>With this blog post, I hope you'll find it interesting to learn about developing a modern-ancient app for Win 3.1.<p><a href="https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/yeokm1/w31slack</a>
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