Re: Visual Studio IDE - Integration

[Ivan Levashev <bu_gen@octagram.name>]

27.01.2017 19:49, alby.gamper@gmail.com пишет:
> Dear Ada Community
> 
> Is their any general interest in using Visual Studio as an IDE for ADA
> development ? (Not as a replacement to GPS, but rather as an alternative
> for those teams primarily working on Windows based environments)

I used to want Ada in Delphi IDE (BDS, RAD) as yet another language in
addition to C++ and Delphi. But for good developer experience that also
implies embedding cross-platform GUI builder which is always a hard
choice. Personally I'm Cocoa proponent. And I'm neither FireMonkey nor
VCL propoment. Cocoa is ARC, and VCL and FireMonkey are unconvenient
single referenced frameworks.

> d) I have a rudimentary binding to WinRT, BUT this is limited to NON GUI
> functionality, since XAML  and Windows Composition API's seem to require a
> sandboxed/windows Store environment to run under ?

Recent Delphi and C++ Builder solved this via Centennial loophole. They
are distributing Starter keys for free currently so you can investigate
how do they handle WinRT. There is a report on their work:

https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/windows-10-from-winrt-to-centennial-with-marco-cantu

Those dirty secrets Microsoft is not going to tell you, only 3rd party
vendords are, and just as always we are step behind Delphi when it takes
to UI stuff, so they are exploring WinRT and Cocoa before us.

Marco Cantu got to the Windows Store with Delphi program, so with Ada
it's also possible.

Best Regards,
Ivan Levashev,
Barnaul

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