Ars: Searching Win8

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Check out Ars’ choice of search term about 2/3 of the way down the page.

Hi-res here.

Published by Herb Sutter

Herb Sutter is an author and speaker, a software architect at Microsoft, and chair of the ISO C++ standards committee.

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5 thoughts on “Ars: Searching Win8”

  1. I’ve tried the new Metro flavored C++ in the Win 8 Preview and it looks good. Except for one thing, why do we have to use the hat (^) as a fancy doublepointer for accessing say, XAML objects? I mean, I could understand why, for previous C++/CLI programs running inside classic .NET with its garbage collection that can pull the rug from under you, that hats are needed.

    But inside this new WinRT, objects are supposed to be ref-counted COM-style. And no garbage collection will issue surprise memory shuffles. So why the hats?

    (Indeed, if vanilla pointers would have been supported for accessing WinRT objects, then I think Win8 C++ coding could be even more elegant.)

  2. The C++ Renaissance within Microsoft is indeed very welcome. :)

    However, I’m very disappointed, underwhelmed and surprised by the lack of C++11 language features in VC11.

  4. “Using the Windows Runtime from C ” – is this about new WinRT and where/when will this presentation be made publicly available?

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