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<div class="im">On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:28:46 -0800, Manu <<a href="mailto:turkeyman@gmail.com" target="_blank">turkeyman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 25 January 2012 23:59, Adam Wilson <<a href="mailto:flyboynw@gmail.com" target="_blank">flyboynw@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:35:38 -0800, Manu <<a href="mailto:turkeyman@gmail.com" target="_blank">turkeyman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 25 January 2012 21:47, bls <<a href="mailto:bizprac@orange.fr" target="_blank">bizprac@orange.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 01/25/2012 07:03 AM, Manu wrote:<br>
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This is fairly interesting. MS have extended their C++ compiler<br>
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significantly for Windows8 with a bunch of non-standard stuff.<br>
FINALLY implement garbage collection, ref counting, properties,<br>
delegates, events, generics, etc...<br>
If other compilers adopt this tech, D loses some advantages.<br>
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But you still have to fight with ifndef ,forward declaration, and a<br>
template syntax against common sense. Even if you paint shit yellow it's<br>
not necessarily gold.<br>
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True, but I think this will mitigate a lot of the motivation Windows devs<br>
have to seek another language if they're not developing cross platform<br>
apps.<br>
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Sadly, since WinRT requires using these language extensions to interface<br>
with the new windows runtime, you won't be able to write a Windows8 app in<br>
D.<br>
Interestingly though, D supports almost everything they've added to C++. I<br>
wonder if it would be possible to do extern(Windows8) to produce a<br>
compatible ABI for linking with MS C++ apps?<br>
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The most interesting features are 'ref new' and 'gcnew', which makes me<br>
wonder, since Windows8 has an OS garbage collector, would it be at all<br>
possible to have D use the Windows8 GC? I'd prefer this to using D's own<br>
GC<br>
if it would be supported, and obviously this would be a requirement if D<br>
was going to interact with WinRT properly.<br>
Also, WinRT uses 'ref new' to allocate ref counted (effectively COM to my<br>
understanding) objects. I think I read somewhere that D already has<br>
extern(COM) no? I wonder if Windows8 ref type linkage is already<br>
technically supported in D?<br>
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There is no Win8GC, it's all ref counted. WinRT is COM with extras and as<br>
such should be accessible to D. It would need some extra glue code over<br>
what we have now ... like the IInspectable interface.<br>
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Really? So what's 'gcnew' for?<br>
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That's for targeting the CLR (.NET) so it doesn't conflict with new/delete in regular C++. It goes all the way back to the first C++/CLI in Visual Studio 2005.<br>
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/te3ecsc8.aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-<u></u>us/library/te3ecsc8.aspx</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So there is a GC... It just happens to be the .net GC. Is that a problem? Obviously it's accessible in C++ code. Can you use it to allocate C++ objects, or is it exclusively for some sort of interaction with .net?</div>
<div>If the rest of the platform is using it...</div></div>