The evolution of WinRT
With the announcement of Windows 8, Microsoft has released a complete new architecture of its famous and most used operating system, Windows. This architecture is for all the devices and platforms, including mobile phones, tablets, wearable, and so on. Due to this singleton approach, a unified approach for application development was very much needed, so Microsoft included a few more tools and languages in its platform, and from there JavaScript for Windows, or Win, came on to the scene.
You may ask why have they adopted JavaScript and why not some other language for their expanding arsenal of web programming? The answer lies in the architecture of JavaScript. In the previous chapters, we learned how JavaScript is considered ...
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