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Standards take time, the ISO spec is typically 2-3 years behind the current product. But cheer up, the ECMA team just updated the VM spec a couple of months ag
by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Standards take time, the ISO spec is typically 2-3 years behind the current product.
But cheer up, the ECMA team just updated the VM spec a couple of months ago and the committee is resuming work on new features.
We are all pretty psyched about the next steps for the ECMA standards.
As for Mono, we already have C# 5 and many of the new class library features. Having two independent implementations helps coming up with a better standard.
- solutionyogi 14y agoCan I use async/await on Monotouch right now? If yes, I think you have a new customer!
- migueldeicaza 14y agoSome assembly is required for that. MonoTouch is currently based on Mono 2.10, while C# 5.0 is based on the new codebase on Mono 2.11. We are waiting for Microsoft to officially bless C# 5.0 as complete before we can ship it, otherwise we will break people's code.
- jstedfast 14y agoThe current version of Mono4Android and MonoTouch do not support async/await yet, but that is on the roadmap (once Mono 2.12 [currently in beta] is released).
- ajross 14y agoThe chart on wikipedia shows the delays between Microsoft release and standard ratification for 11 months for C# 1.0 and 9 months for C# 2.0. C# 3.0 was released 4.5 years ago.