On 2011-10-01 23:44, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2011-09-30 14:05:28 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> said:
On 2011-09-30 12:58, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2011-09-29 21:23:48 +0000, RenatoL <[email protected]> said:
Hi all. What do you about WinRT? I think this new APIs could be a
very interesting point for D... they are open to any language and
i think that D is perfect to work with them. What's your opinion?
Best regards
From what I understand, WinRT is based on COM. D already supports COM,
so it might already be doable by declaring the right interfaces as
derivatives of IUnknown.
I suggest you give it a try.
That said, the automatic reference counting they added to WinRT types in
Visual C++ won't be available without compiler support (but you can do
it manually), and neither will the compiler-generated reflection data
(you'll have to generate it yourself).
Doesn't the garbage collector implement reference counting or similar
when implementing from IUnknown?
Would be great, but it's not mentioned in the language spec so I
somewhat doubt it.
<http://www.d-programming-language.org/interface.html#COM-Interfaces>
Perhpas I was thinking about this:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/rt/lifetime.d#L103
(the comment)
But that might not be automatically called.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
