I come from Palm development using C/C++. Now I am looking for porting my applications to Pocket PC.
From the lessons learned in developing with C/C++, specially when your application is not a best seller, and you honestly want to have some money for your work, I am searching for a development tool that permits to develop in a higher level than C/C++.
I have tested Visual Basic.NET, but I think that a professional looking program can not afford to wait ten seconds for the first window to apear in the PDA. So I do not want to work with any .NET Framework language.
I am looking for a language that permits to develop in a higher level than C/C++, but permits to compile to native unmanaged code, without using .NET Framework.
This was possible in Palm development, with some tools using Pascal and Delphi, but I do not know if tools of this kind exist in Pocket PC development, so that is the reason of this message.