On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 01:45:16 -0700, Paulo Pinto <pj...@progtools.org>
wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 21:43:05 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:36:56 -0700, Orvid King <blah38...@gmail.com>
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.
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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.
Incorrect. It is a fully AOT compiler using the Visual C++ backend.
NGen assemblies are incredibly fragile and machine specific, by using
the VC++ backend they have eliminated that problem. It's not the Native
C# language that has been talked about, but it is definitely a step in
the right direction.
Actually it is.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native @00:12:00
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Paulo
Erm. No it's not. That project is called M#, it is a different language
than C#. M# has a different but related set of keywords/syntax compared to
C#. The similarity is that they both use the VC++ backend, but that is a
more a case of technology re-use than any meaningful relationship.
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Adam Wilson
GitHub/IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator
