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17 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 14 comments · first 2016-10-13 · latest 2026-06-14

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  1. …like win32metadata and windows-rs that support both WinRT and non-WinRT APIs seamlessly." From https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/issues/1289#issuecomme... You will notice the open issues are mostly bug fixes. So who knows what will…
  2. …regularly contributed to complimentary projects such as https://github.com/microsoft/wil/ . From https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/issues/1289#issuecomme...
    comment by pjmlp · 2025-11-07 · in A Note on Fil-C
  3. …https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT/issues https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/commits/master/
    comment by pjmlp · 2025-05-11 · in Lazarus Release 4.0
  4. …team certainly hasn’t, that’s true. But the above doesn’t feel like first-class support. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/issues/1289#issuecomme... [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/sing...
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2024-11-26 · in The two factions of C++
  5. …repos, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/ And then compare with Project Reunion vision from 2021, and where we are three years later…
  6. …Microsoft's projections for standard C++ and Rust. https://github.com/thebrowsercompany/swift-winrt https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs
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    C++/WinRT is now in maintenance mode
    story by qalmakka · 2023-08-09 · 1 comment
  8. …repos: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT
  9. It's coming: https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/pull/556/commits/6b957...
    comment by my123 · 2020-07-12 · in Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel
  10. …For example see C++/WinRT[0] for a modern C++ interface to COM. Or the C# .NET equivalents. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt
  11. …ACLs ? none that I know of :( though MS has a fairly decent "modern C++" API that covers WinRT: https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt but I don't think ACLs are even available in WinRT > COM oh, yes: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/574…
    comment by jcelerier · 2017-09-27 · in Why did we choose Rust to develop TiKV?
  12. Don't know, but it's been discussed publicly rather recently: https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt745094.aspx "Teams within Microsoft are already starting to use C++/WinRT to build WinRT…
    comment by whowouldathunk · 2017-07-28 · in Metaclasses: Thoughts on generative C++
  13. …but this looked compelling when I was looking to create high performance Windows app middleware: https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt
    comment by lwansbrough · 2017-07-08 · in Ask HN: Name good examples of Modern C++ usage
  14. …cppwinrt library[1] [0] https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/using-winrt-apis-f... [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt
  15. …C++/WinRT, which uses standard C++ syntax and adds "await" to make async programming much easier. https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt
    comment by becarefulyo · 2017-01-15 · in Windows Code Samples
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    C++/WinRT is a standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime
    story by rpeden · 2016-10-13 · 0 comments
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    C++/WinRT – A standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime
    story by iLoch · 2016-10-13 · 0 comments