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Those latter things (COM, WinRT) are gated behind the enterprise license, IIRC. Most people will not have cause to want them. I know I don't.
by R0b0t1 5y ago
Those latter things (COM, WinRT) are gated behind the enterprise license, IIRC. Most people will not have cause to want them.
I know I don't.
- pjmlp 5y agoAny serious Windows developer will.
- R0b0t1 5y agoThey're a sign of dated tech. Nothing modern necessarily needs them. I know how to use them and I can respect the design, but pay gating them for so long has made them irrelevant.
- pjmlp 5y agoNot only those things aren't gated, they are the modern APIs on Windows since Longhorn, they are only irrelevant if you are stuck on Windows XP.
- R0b0t1 5y agoThe developer tooling was pay gated until VS2019 or something. You needed this tooling to make use of the APIs in a reasonable way, or alternative tooling. Most people just responded by not using those APIs or recreating them.
- GordonS 5y agoSerious Windows developer here - I want nothing to do with COM or WinRt!
- pjmlp 5y agoGiven that since Longhorn debacle, for better or worse all new APIs are COM based, and WinRT is still COM with extras, I cannot take that as serious Windows developer, rather a developer stuck with a Windows XP.