u/yksvaanin r/C_Programming • Recommends
On “How did C programmers write GUIs in the 80s and early 90s?”
Here's a nice video link to this video
The guy writes a really tiny simple app, you'll probably get the idea even if the details go over your head.
Using winapi diectly is tedious but there's some charm to it. I've actually written some minimal utilities with but those were basically CLI wrappers for normies with a file selector and button or something else trivial.