I agree on "fits in my head". I haven't used C++ but I used to love ANSI C. I had a reference manual for it that was something like 30 pages and basically covered the entire language. There's something magical about the compact size of regular C.

It's been a long time since I have tried to do Windows work in C/C++. Is this Win32 the actual Win32 API of yesteryear or something else. I thought CMoke was a Unix tooling.