Laugh about the win32 API all you like, I have a certain respect for it. It’s really weird with all its Hungarian notation stuff at first, but I have to admire how this is an over 40 year old API that solves things that were, at the time, still pretty big issues. If you read the documentation (which is pretty good) and follow it closely, you can write very reliable code. Ignore it at your peril.

Also, the API is incredibly stable. There’s a reason that, for all I hate what Windows has become, backwards compatibility on that platform is second to none.