On 2011-09-30 00:13, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"RenatoL"<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Eh eh, it may be strange something good come out from MS... but i
think this time we could look at this with interest.... this an
object replacement for win32 and the OS exposes it in an "open"
way... i believe this is good for D (and Delphi, Scala....)
I'm not sure it's so good for D. Some of the comments here...
http://www.winsupersite.com/blog/supersite-blog-39/windows8/winrt-replacing-win32-140605
...seem to suggest that HTML/JS/etc apps will have roughly the same speed as
native C++ apps. If that's true, then it can only mean that Win8 severely
gimps the performance of natively-compiled apps. It's not as if they've
found some magic technology to install a native-JS-executing CPU into your
computer.
That's very hard to believe.
Of course, this is all getting *very* speculative at this point.
I've watched two video clips from the Build conference about C++, one
was about C++ in WinRT. It looks and sounds pretty good to me, although
I haven't looked at any other parts of Windows 8. I like the idea of
having a completely object oriented system API that you also can share
among other languages.
Note that it's not often I say something good about Microsoft.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
