On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 21:03:18 UTC, Orvid King wrote:
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:24:00 -0500, Paulo Pinto
<pj...@progtools.org> wrote:
So it finally happened, C# gets an AOT compiler in addition to
NGEN/JIT
as part of standard Visual Studio tools.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/02/microsoft-updates-visual-studio-with-support-for-universal-projects-typescript-1-0-and-net-native-code-compilation/
More information will be provided in the native sessions
tomorrow and on
Friday.
Posting this as it has direct implications into D's adoption.
--
Paulo
NGen's been around since .net 2.0, all the native compilation
is that they are talking about is just a few stubs and a nice
pretty interface for developers to work with. They do not
currently intend to support the AOT compilation for desktops,
not in the way that D does at least. Microsoft's AOT interface
will also only ever support Windows. If Apple is very lucky,
they might support it on OSX, but it will never make it to
Linux. All in all, this news is basically no news :P It's also
been possible to AOT compile a .net program with mono on linux
and deploy it with no dependencies for quite a while now.
It is more than just ngen, it makes use of Visual C++ backend.
I am following it.
All the niffty details to be unwrapped on Friday it seems.
--
Paulo
