alt Hacker NewsI 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.
Ignoring C++ devs on purpose?
Also no one uses WinUI, if that is what you are implying with WinRT, only Microsoft employees on Windows team forced to deal with that clusterfuck framework after Project Reunion pivoted into WinAppSDK.
What do you think Qt, VCL, FireMonkey, ImGui, wxWindgets, JUCE make use of?