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why are WP7 devs clamoring for native code anyways? It's because the .NET performance is terrible. Wrong. It's not because of .Net performance. They're asking
by molmalo 15y ago
why are WP7 devs clamoring for native code anyways? It's because the .NET performance is terrible.
Wrong. It's not because of .Net performance. They're asking for native support, mainly to make much easier to port games and other apps from Android and iOS to WP, being able to actually reuse code, instead of a complete rewrite. Nobody wants to write the entire app several times, when targeting to multiple platforms.
- rbanffy 15y agoMy personal experience with C++ on Windows (CE in 2002) was not very encouraging WRT portability. You may get more commonality between destop Windows and WP7 than between WP7 and Android but the code may end up with a lot of ifdefs and windows-isms in it. It's been a while, so YMMV. It could, in fact, be easier to mechanically translate between Java and C# than going C++.