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I doubt it's going to be a first-class citizen like Java anytime soon. there is a lot of Innovation going on, with the new open source .NET. the CoreRT[1] pro

by wesamco 10y ago

I doubt it's going to be a first-class citizen like Java anytime soon. there is a lot of Innovation going on, with the new open source .NET. the CoreRT[1] project compiles C#->C++->Machine code for any platform, including ARM. and Samsung has been a big contributor to make that happen. and today during the Connect() event, they announced that every Xamarin forms app will run on Tizen[2]. [1] https://github.com/dotnet/corert https://github.com/dotnet/corert [2] https://www.tizen.org/blogs/dh0922/2016/tizen-.net-developer-preview https://www.tizen.org/blogs/dh0922/2016/tizen-.net-developer...

ygra 10y ago
Where did you get that they compile C# to C++? I thought .NET Native was compiling to machine code, maybe with IL in between, but certainly not via another high-level language.
- wesamco 10y ago
  https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/Documentation/intro-to-corert.md https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/Documentation/i...
  - ygra 10y ago
    Ah, thanks. Didn't notice that part. So it's more an option, among others, while the "normal" .NET Native toolchain directly goes the IL → machine code route via RyuJIT.
    - pjmlp 10y ago
      .NET Native doesn't use RyuJIT, rather Visual C++'s backend. CoreRT uses RyuJIT.