On Monday, OSNews had the pleasure of talking face to face with Trolltech's CEO and founder, Haavard Nord. Mr Nord discussed with us the new features found in Qt 3.3 (download, changes, announcement), Qtopia and the arising market of Linux in mobile phones as well as in the business computer market. Update: ITManagersJournal hosts a Trolltech article as well.
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> Managed C++ is right now a subset of C++. Hell, last I
> checked it lacked even templates.
>
AFAIK you can write real C++ code containing templates, multiple inheritance, explicit memory management using delete etc. and target the MSIL instead of a real isa like x86. The resulting MSIL code makes heavy use of unsafe features such as pointers and is therefore not verifiable, but it runs on a MSIL VM.
Managed C++ is just a verifiable subset of real C++ that targets the MSIL VM.
> Managed C++ is right now a subset of C++. Hell, last I
> checked it lacked even templates.
>
AFAIK you can write real C++ code containing templates, multiple inheritance, explicit memory management using delete etc. and target the MSIL instead of a real isa like x86. The resulting MSIL code makes heavy use of unsafe features such as pointers and is therefore not verifiable, but it runs on a MSIL VM.
Managed C++ is just a verifiable subset of real C++ that targets the MSIL VM.