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This is very impressive. I got further with this in fifteen minutes on my iPhone lying in bed than an hour last night with the Windows Phone 8 SDK. The APIs s
by moconnor 14y ago
This is very impressive.
I got further with this in fifteen minutes on my iPhone lying in bed than an hour last night with the Windows Phone 8 SDK.
The APIs seem nicely designed and the interface works surprisingly well on a phone. I haven't seen anything else as likely to democratize programming since Click 'n Play back in the 90s.
It would be nice to see some kind of automatic wrapper facility for the full API, even if the syntax became necessarily horrible and it was hidden behind an expert panel. Sooner or later every large project will want to step beyond the bounds of the current garden, I think.
- brudgers 14y agoInitially released as a Windows Phone 7 app only, the driving force was to treat mobile as first class computing devices. Think QBASIC for mobile to allow user scripting of the device. That idea is important because mobile phones are the way in which most of the world can experience owning a computer. Touchdevelop on the phone allows a poor Kenyan to express her potential as a programmer without obtaining a traditional computer.
- quinndupont 14y agoOh Microsoft... so it works on iOS Safari, but not on their own Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 8 :(
- seattlemaf 14y agoFor windows phone 7 and 8 there is a native free app in the marketplace. Try that.
- pycassa 14y agocorrect me if I am wrong, but I dont think he said anything about the iOS safari and internet explorer on windows phone. More like.. Because of this web version, he went further with windows development than when he tried to start with actual windows phone 8 development on his computer..