[Info-vax] BridgeWorks

[John Dallman]

In article <v8utmu$26liu$2 at dont-email.me>, mokuba at gmail.com (Gary Sparkes)
wrote:

> WinRT is very much alive and well, being expanded over time, and 
> destined to replace Win32 entirely for any modern usage. 

I think "destined" should be "once intended", since it is in maintenance
mode, and was never able to replace all usages.

I produce mathematical modelling libraries for many platforms, written in
a domain-specific language that is transpiled into C, and then compiled
with each platform's compiler. 

Microsoft wanted us to produce libraries for use in Windows Store Apps.
The special compiler mode for that doesn't seem to be able to compile C
code. They insisted that it could, but were never able to come up with a
set of compiler options that made it work. After a while they gave up and
allowed Win32 DLLs in Windows Store Apps. The restriction had always been
artificial. 

John