Why is the Win32 boilerplate the way it is?

[Jason King via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 05:30:23 UTC, Jeremy Sorensen wrote:
> Assuming the nCmdShow thing isn't a problem I see no reason why 
> the wiki should tell people to use WinMain at all.
If MSDN is to be believed
VOID WINAPI GetStartupInfo(
   _Out_  LPSTARTUPINFO lpStartupInfo
);
will get you nCmdShow and lots of other goodies.