<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sven Barth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pascaldragon@googlemail.com" target="_blank">pascaldragon@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I believe they'll mostly go through the WinRT, which is Microsoft's new API pet project.<br></blockquote></div><br>Thanks. I didn't even know about this WinRT. New technologies are appearing all the time.<br>
<br>Page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RunTime">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RunTime</a><br>says that WinRT is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model" title="Component Object Model">COM</a>-based API and uses a .NET-like metadata format.<br>
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.<br><br>Anyway, I believe Windows Phone will attract both developers and users in future. It is a rather good environment for programming.<br>
Things are not completely hopeless for Nokia and other Windows Phone makers (maybe).<br><br>Juha<br><br>