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I haven't seen the reluctance to use the runtime in interop scenarios. Is this just a personal interest or do you have a particular use case? I'm genuinely inte

• fauigerzigerk 7y ago
  This debate is about Microsoft's decision some 14 years ago to build Windows userland components on top of C++ COM technology instead of .NET as some within Microsoft had wanted. Those inside Microsoft who didn't want to force everyone to use a rather heavyweight runtime including a tracing GC won the debate. It would have affected almost everyone, not just those with use cases that can tolerate the significant additional resource usage. I merely made the observation that the difficulty to infer correct reference counting information from C#/Java code is what caused this rift and a lot of unproductive duplicated effort in our industry.
  • youdontknowtho 7y ago
    I see what you mean. Good point. Cheers.