Am 25.06.2012 11:12 schrieb <michael.vancann...@wisa.be>: > > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Sven Barth wrote: > >> Am 24.06.2012 22:59 schrieb "Juha Manninen" <juha.mannine...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com > >> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I believe they'll mostly go through the WinRT, which is Microsoft's new >> >> API pet project. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks. I didn't even know about this WinRT. New technologies are >> >> appearing all the time. >>> >>> >>> Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RunTime >>> says that WinRT is a COM-based API and uses a .NET-like metadata format. >>> So it is not native code after all then. I don't know why they advertised >> >> it as native. I guess it is faster than .NET code because it is not >> managed. I thought that .NET allows non-managed code, too. >> >> Why does "COM-based + .NET-like metadata" imply that it's not native code? >> The core libraries are written in either C or C++ and the metadata is >> needed so that runtimes like .NET and languages like JavaScript can >> interface with WinRT. We can also use this metadata to generate Object >> Pascal wrappers (it is basically the successor of IDL which was used for >> interface definitions in the original COM) > > > Well, now we know what you will do during your holidays ;-)
Ehm... no, not really. I see no reason in working on something that I don't plan to use. ;) > I can't believe they invented yet another technology/API. Their partners must go crazy :/ They have seen that their pure managed approach on Windows Phone 7 wasn't as successful as thought and now they try to attract native, managed and "web" (JavaScript) developers... Regards, Sven
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