I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets

Re:I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets by pjmlp on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:49AM (#18854002)

So I talk about COM, and you move the goal posts about DirectX in particular, that only implements a subset of COM, which requires writing wrappers by hand, including in .NET, hence Managed DirectX, XNA and SharpDX projects.

Apparently you missed the news regarding PWAs in Windows and its support for native UWP. Again, WinJS got dropped, because it was tied to the Windows 8 programming model, which got improved on Windows 8.1, only to be replaced by UWP on Windows 10.

Win32 GDI actually has "we wish you were all using Win2D and DirectDraw" support on Windows 10.

Here are some examples of automating Excel with Python, http://pbpython.com/windows-com.html, hardly any different from using VBA.

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Re:I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets by Const-me on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @03:22AM (#18854136)

> you move the goal posts about DirectX in particular

In my first comment I wrote that COM became an essential part of WinAPI. Excel runs on Windows but it’s not Windows. DirectX on the other hand is in OS kernel, mayor parts are dxgkrnl.sys. Same applies to media foundation, Windows shell and clipboard, WMI, and many other OS components.

> which requires writing wrappers by hand, including in .NET, hence Managed DirectX, XNA and SharpDX projects.

Right, and all except SharpDX are first-party i.e. made by MS. MS made even more wrappers, WPF, Direct2D and UWP are also manually written wrappers around D3D 9 or 11.

How many wrappers MS made for Delphi or C++ builder?

> you missed the news regarding PWAs in Windows and its support for native UWP

I’m a bit skeptical about the technology.

> examples of automating Excel with Python

Simple IDispatch not that hard even in pure C. It’s more advanced things that require better support for COM: servers, events-callbacks, data structures like arrays and dictionaries, etc.

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