Why is the Win32 boilerplate the way it is?

[Jeremy Sorensen via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 29 June 2014 at 07:51:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> You don't need to use WinMain. You can use a plain D main 
> function and add the "-L/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS:4.0" link flag to 
> suppress the console. There are API's to get access to the 
> arguments passed to WinMain, if necessary.

Thanks for your help on this, I couldn't find a way to get the 
nCmdShow argument, is it safe to assume SW_SHOWNORMAL for 
starting a new application?

So the situation so far is this:
1. You don't need hPrevInstance
2. You can get hInstance via GetModuleHandle(null) (I think that 
is the best way)
3. [awesome] use main(string[] args) to get your command line 
arguments exactly like you are used to (except no program name, I 
tested this)
4. You don't have to worry about the runtime, it is handled 
automatically
5. You don't have to catch at the top level and put up a message 
box, this is also done automatically

Assuming the nCmdShow thing isn't a problem I see no reason why 
the wiki should tell people to use WinMain at all.