Going Native 2012

[Lynn McGuire]

Going Native 2012:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012

Microsoft had a conference about writing C++ code.
Who knew ? I thought that they were all about C#
nowadays.

Bjarne Stroustrup gave a speech on C++ 11.

Lynn

 

[Stefan Ram]

Microsoft had a conference about writing C++ code.
Who knew ? I thought that they were all about C#
nowadays.

There are at least the following »strains« of development on
Windows:

- native (C, C++, assembler, ...)
- native scripting (VBS, VBA, Perl, ...)
- dotnet (C#, VB, ...)
- JVM (Java, Scala, ...)
- legacy (VB6, Delphi, BASIC, ...)
- WinRT (Windows 8, HTML+JavaScript+CSS)

But look what Microsoft uses to develop the software they
sell themselves, like Windows and Office: It seems to me
that they mainly use native languages. (Although, the
Windows 7 UI seems to use some XML styling language).

Years ago, it looked as if dotnet was to become the successor
of native development. Some companies invested to convert
projects to dotnet or to train programmers for dotnet. Now,
the C# developers are irritated from two sides: 1st "going
native", 2nd "going Windows 8".

 

[Dombo]

Op 20-Feb-12 23:39, Stefan Ram schreef:

There are at least the following »strains« of development on
Windows:

- native (C, C++, assembler, ...)
- native scripting (VBS, VBA, Perl, ...)
- dotnet (C#, VB, ...)
- JVM (Java, Scala, ...)
- legacy (VB6, Delphi, BASIC, ...)
- WinRT (Windows 8, HTML+JavaScript+CSS)

But look what Microsoft uses to develop the software they
sell themselves, like Windows and Office: It seems to me
that they mainly use native languages. (Although, the
Windows 7 UI seems to use some XML styling language).

Years ago, it looked as if dotnet was to become the successor
of native development. Some companies invested to convert
projects to dotnet or to train programmers for dotnet. Now,
the C# developers are irritated from two sides: 1st "going
native", 2nd "going Windows 8".

Yet on the Microsoft Techdays I visited last week, C++ did not exactly
get much attention. The HTML+JavaScript thingy seems to be only the lure
webpage designers into developing applications for Metro.

I figure that Microsoft itself doesn't know where it wants to go today.
Big company, many departments, no vision.