>>96Why not? Win32 API is far more common and less annoying to deal with than the mess of bloated *nix "you are in a maze of GUI libraries, all almost alike".
The *nix CLI is awesome, but the GUI situation is horrible. Windows is pretty much the opposite. WINE helps get the best of both worlds.
>>103No optimisation is premature when you're competing with huge existing implementations that have probably spent person-centuries on optimisation (and adding bloat...) I could probably get some huge libraries and release Yet Another WebKit Browser in a halfternoon, but that's not really useful.