Karlos wrote:
@Nyteschayde
Don't get me wrong, I think XAML will be highly useful for rapid development. My principal gripe is that regardless of what people will say, I'm sure such uber-high level approaches (I know XAML is compiled) will give much poorer performing code than something written at the C/C++ level. Or maybe I'm getting too long in the tooth :-D
As always, it's the balance between ease of use and efficiency. They rarely sit together well.
Spoken like a true C++ programmer Karlos.. There are some of us who think we can get good and dare I say it, even GREAT performance out of C# and VB.NET using the CLR (Common Language Runtime) aka the Microsoft .Net Virtual machine without resorting to their IL code or dare I say it ;-) Managed Code Visual C++, it's certainly portable enough :-)
Oh and someone else up there was suggesting xaml would be in the browser.. I don't think they plan on that, it will probably just be part of explorer.exe (not iexplore.exe) just for doing windows interfaces.. But I could see the windows UI getting a lot more standardized and a lot prettier with this functionality now as easy for programmers to set up as a web page..
