Windows 8 Metro support

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-04-09 21:20, Sönke Ludwig wrote:

> I've got my information directly from Microsoft Metro guys. Not totally
> sure how good their knowledge actually is, but for _Metro_ apps they
> said that because of sandboxing it is only allowed to access functions
> of the WinRT - the C++ runtime is an exception but I would guess that
> this does not apply for foreign runtimes. You also have to recompile
> C/C++ libraries with the new runtime. Also, the sandboxing model seemed
> to be a part of WinRT - so DMD executables would not be sandboxed at all.
>
> The desktop world will of course be working exactly like it used to do
> and the Win32 API will probably live on for at least a few OS generations.

D is statically linked to the standard library and runtime.

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/Jacob Carlborg