Windows Universal/Store apps support

[Olivier Prince via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 03:23:39 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 29/05/2015 3:57 a.m., Olivier Prince wrote:
>> I searched the forum to find if there is some support for new 
>> Windows
>> development technologies and I didn't find anything related 
>> (except some
>> rants about WinRT 3 years ago).
>>
>> - Is there any support in D or phobos for developping this 
>> kind of
>> applications?
>
> No.
>
>> - Does D support ARM as Windows target?
>
> Yes/No. ldc/gdc guys probably are a good place to start.
>
>> - Are there any plans to support the specific libraries in 
>> this respect
>> (something like C++/CX extensions or COM metadata files)?
>
> What exactly do you need?

Language integrated reference counting, runtime templates, 
partial COM classes, strings, arrays, collections, exceptions, 
events, delegates, attributes. I know that D has these features 
but I doubt that thay are mapped to COM counterparts.

>
>> - At least, is there a skeleton Store app written in D?
>
> No.