Why don't we use the CRT functions under Windows?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Saturday, 22 May 2021 at 20:18:58 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> By today's standard the C library API is ancient and doesn't 
> provide an asynchronous API for example. Win32 and POSIX (late 
> to the game) have both an asynchronous APIs.

The Windows overlapped io api is actually very nice too. In fact, 
I overall prefer the Windows functions to most the posix and c 
ones.