By Windows XP, Microsoft’s own resource tools had won by default. Here’s the surprising part: I still run Borland Resource Workshop in 2026 .
If you cut your teeth on Windows programming in the early 90s—using C, Turbo Pascal, or even Visual Basic—you remember the Resource Compiler dance. borland resource workshop
You wrote a .RC text file, compiled it with RC.EXE , and hoped the coordinates didn't overlap. It was functional, but it was blind. By Windows XP, Microsoft’s own resource tools had