This seems really promising, can't say I would miss all of the ^ (hat) usage for Modern Windows APIs. I wonder how he intends to wrap/change the DirectX APIs.

This seems really promising, can't say I would miss all of the ^ (hat) usage for Modern Windows APIs. I wonder how he intends to wrap/change the DirectX APIs. AFAIK Direct2D, WIC, DirectComposition are already native COM-based APIs, much like Direct3D.