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It seems that the Windows group at Microsoft has a lot of pull , doesn't like the managed stack, and that's why we're seeing a lot of "native is back" and C++ article on Microsoft-centered sites.

If that's the case, I wish Microsoft would bite the bullet and come up with a new native language. Microsoft programmers are for the most part happy C#/.NET and trying to pull them back to C++ is a losing proposition.

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The funny thing is that there are native code compilers for C#, like bartok in Singularity and Windows Phone 8 deployment with MDIL.

Languages are not native or managed, implementations are.

The way .NET is currently deployed on Windows and whatever else might be happening, is a result of internal politcs at Microsoft.

If they wish to do so, they could go fully native with lets say .NET 5.

I get the feeling that they are no so much pulling C++ back as rather more prominently showing us where it has always been. There has always an underlying C/C++ based Win32 and kernel library for example, but the .NET BCL hid much of that. Now in Win8, C++ is a first class citizen for designing Windows UIs again, along with C#.

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