Microsoft Seeks more Programming Language Support for Win 8
Microsoft is hoping to convince more developers
While Windows 8 already supports development using a number of programming languages, Microsoft wants developers to bring even more to the new Windows runtime (WinRT) at the heart of the next version of Windows. Martyn Lovell, Development Manager for the WinRT team, made the pitch for more language support for Windows 8 on April 3, during his Lang.Next conference session at Microsoft.
WinRT already supports development in C++, JavaScript/HTML5, Visual Basic, Visual C# and XAML (a remote cousin of Silverlight). Lovell first publicly outlined Microsoft’s plans for WinRT at the Build conference in September 2011. Yesterday at Lang.Next, Lovell said that almost all of the WinRT design principles he first presented to senior Windows leadership almost two years ago are still in place. A key idea in designing the new runtime was to make native, managed and dynamic languages all first class citizens in WinRT, with JavaScript, C#/VB and C++ as the initial targets.
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