Windows 8 Metro support

[Sönke Ludwig]

Am 10.04.2012 09:30, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
> On 2012-04-10 09:24, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>
>> Okay, I would agree to the first part. This would make the interaction
>> with WinRT bidirectional and more or less seemless. But one thing in
>> particular, that you are not allowed to do is to use kernel32.dll (at
>> least I was told). So you still have to rewrite all the C-library
>> functions (such as fopen(), malloc() and so on) and anything that the D
>> runtime or Phobos uses from kernel32 or similar libraries; I gues the
>> same applies to ws2_32 and so on.
>
> That doesn't sound like a good idea, to force every language to rewrite
> their runtime and standard library.
>
... or they use the VisualStudio C/C++ runtime as their base, which is 
already adapted.

But since this is all just theory and guesswork, some real tests are 
probably in order - maybe I can do that tomorrow but unfortunately, my 
time is currently extremely limited.