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Re:AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembl... by wavemode on Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:55PM (#38984461)
To be fair, from that perspective every backend web application in every language is really just "calling C code".
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Re:AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembl... by eterm on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:43PM (#38985399)
That's overly simplistic and untrue. If you write a C# / .Net program you're not "just calling C code", you're not calling C at all.
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Re:AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembl... by tsm212 on Saturday January 13, 2024 @08:03PM (#38986377)
But the CLR is written c, c++ and assembly which is what runs c#. Also the syscalls that run down the chain are also written in c, c++ etc.
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Re:AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembl... by struant on Sunday January 14, 2024 @08:49AM (#38990333)
That is just the runtime. That is smaller of fraction of what is going on when your programs execute than you think.

The C# code you write (and majority of the your code's dependencies) are JIT compiled to native machine code (or more recently there are AOT compilation options).

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Re:AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembl... by mldbk on Saturday January 13, 2024 @06:40PM (#38985880)
but then your runtime VM calls C :)
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