[fpc-pascal] Windows Phone 8 + pascal

[Sven Barth]

Am 25.06.2012 11:12 schrieb <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be>:
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> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Sven Barth wrote:
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>> Am 24.06.2012 22:59 schrieb "Juha Manninen" <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com>:
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>>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com
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>>>> I believe they'll mostly go through the WinRT, which is Microsoft's new
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>> API pet project.
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>>> Thanks. I didn't even know about this WinRT. New technologies are
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>> appearing all the time.
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>>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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)
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> 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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