Twenty years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg [audio]

Re:Twenty years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg [audio] by DizzyDoo on Thursday February 10, 2022 @05:29PM (#30293620)

It's worth mentioning that there's now a third way C# is utilised in Unity which is via their new 'Burst' compiler, part of their wider move to an Entity Component System they've called DOTS[1]. It supports a subset of C# that gets compiled into memory safe jobs that can run safely on and spread across different threads. I'm using the Burst compiler + jobs in my full-time game project and the performance is seriously good for whenever you just need to process a lot of data. You can use Burst with both Mono and IL2CPP script modes.

The go-to deep dive on how DOTS/Burst works is pretty much everything Jackson Dunstan has ever written on the matter [2] but specifically the article that digs into how IL2CPP calls Burst is interesting.[3]

[1] - https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/ma...

[2] - https://www.jacksondunstan.com/?s=burst

[3] - https://www.jacksondunstan.com/articles/5251

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Re:Twenty years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg [audio] by no_wizard on Thursday February 10, 2022 @07:27PM (#30295037)

I have to say, I wonder if this could be augmented into more general applications that need concurrency or parallelism, since this sounds like an optimal way to make realtime or semi real time systems, at least on the surface

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