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Re:.NET Team Survey: Native AOT by pjmlp on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:05AM (#24069297)
C# has long supported it on UWP side, but now with .NET 5 there is an ongoing discussion if they will still support it or not.

The whole MDIL (Windows 8/8.1) and .NET Native (Windows 10) came from WinDev, not DevDiv, hence why it has its own idiosyncratics regarding .NET support.

Now with .NET 5, it seems they are gearing towards just a better NGEN, thus shipping a kind of AOT/JIT mixed mode image, which isn't being that well received and most likely the survey to feel the community.

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Re:.NET Team Survey: Native AOT by MarkSweep on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:02PM (#24075435)
Interesting, they are removing WinRT support from .NET 5 CoreCLR and instead adding a system that lets the Windows team plug in the marshaling stuff:

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/35318

coreclr.dll is currently half a megabyte smaller than the 3.1 release.

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Re:.NET Team Survey: Native AOT by pjmlp on Friday August 07, 2020 @02:15AM (#24078900)
It is based on the same ideas as C++/WinRT, which I am still bitter about, because it represents a productivity drop versus C++/CX as the ones pushing for it are hoping that ISO C++23 eventually gets the features that enables the VS tooling with C++/CX today.

So you are back to manually copying files around and writing IDL files with Notepad like experience as if using ATL style development in 2020.

Most likely C#/WinRT seems to follow the same fate in productivity drop.

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