On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Vincent Povirk madewokherd@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know where you're getting the idea that C++ is the primary way of accessing WinRT APIs.
? I was talking about implementing WinRT, not using it. But it's true, if all apps talk to it via COM, the language it's implemented in shouldn't matter. (I guess I'm having trouble imagining not using C++ to implement a large class library, but that's just my bias.)
We also don't know whether the distribution model for WinRT apps even makes it possible for us to obtain many such apps. Presumably, we won't have a way to just download the files from the Win8 store. Sideloading will most likely (but might not) be possible, but if so Wine's usefulness will be limited to apps that can be obtained in that way.
Yup. I guess my subject line was the main point of my post: we shouldn't expect there to be many plain old arm win32 apps. - Dan