WinRT

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-09-30 12:58, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2011-09-29 21:23:48 +0000, RenatoL <renato at relhost.net> said:
>
>> Hi all. What do you about WinRT? I think this new APIs could be a
>> very interesting point for D... they are open to any language and
>> i think that D is perfect to work with them. What's your opinion?
>> Best regards
>
>  From what I understand, WinRT is based on COM. D already supports COM,
> so it might already be doable by declaring the right interfaces as
> derivatives of IUnknown.
>
> I suggest you give it a try.
>
> That said, the automatic reference counting they added to WinRT types in
> Visual C++ won't be available without compiler support (but you can do
> it manually), and neither will the compiler-generated reflection data
> (you'll have to generate it yourself).

Doesn't the garbage collector implement reference counting or similar 
when implementing from IUnknown?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg