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10. Программисты, использующие Delphi, интересуются, а можно ли на Delphi делать UI в стиле Windows 8?
Yes. We are very keen on supporting WinRT with native Delphi & C++ code. Right now, the issues surrounding the WinRT space center around the fact that many OS-supplied APIs which are required by anyone implementing their own language RTL are actually off-limits unless you're the VC++ RTL DLL. You know, little things like RtlUnwind for exception processing and VirtualAlloc (et. al.) for memory management… Any calls to those APIs from your application will automatically disqualify your application from being an «official» WinRT application capable of delivering through the MS app store.
Right now the VC++ RTL DLL is given special dispensation since that is the library that makes the calls to those forbidden APIs and not directly from the user's app.
If you have to be locked down to MS tools to develop targeting WinRT, then MS is shooting itself in the foot. Windows history of commercial success is not due MS, but due to the huge number of Windows applications, created by a vast number of tools and compilers out there, both commercial and free/open sorce.
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