alt Hacker NewsWho uses WinRT besides Microsoft employees, or APIs that are only available in WinRT like MIDI 2.0?
Regardless, WinRT is COM.
It only adds IInspectable as additional interface alongside IUnknown, and .NET metadata files instead of type libraries.
Who uses WinRT besides Microsoft employees, or APIs that are only available in WinRT like MIDI 2.0?
Regardless, WinRT is COM.
It only adds IInspectable as additional interface alongside IUnknown, and .NET metadata files instead of type libraries.
I said "WinRT/.NET based managed languages/runtimes/libraries/frameworks" implying that it is the higher-level constructs that are used by app developers.
If you were to interview any "standard" windows programmer today i can almost guarantee they know nothing about COM even though WinRT itself is an evolution of COM and .NET also provides COM interop. Only the older senior programmers who have used it directly know of it.