Windows 8 Metro support

[Sönke Ludwig]

Am 09.04.2012 22:32, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
> On 2012-04-09 21:23, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>>>
>>> It's possible to use D with WinRT, as someone posted in an other thread:
>>>
>>> http://www.reddit.com/tb/ow7qc
>>>
>>
>> But that does not suffice to make a Metro app. For desktop apps there
>> shouldn't be a problem, but the Metro side poses more restrictions on
>> the app.
>
> Aha, ok. Don't know about that. BTW, have you seen this:
> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/The-Windows-Runtime
>
>
> He's encouraging other language developers to bring their languages to
> Windows 8 and be compatible with WinRT.
>

Haven't seen it before. Unfortunately, he doesn't talk about the 
language runtime in detail, but he does talk about how the standard 
library needs to be adjusted to use Metro style libraries so I guess the 
same would apply to the language RT.

At the end he gives some links and this one might be interesting:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/PLAT-875T
I'll try to watch that later today.