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Re:G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift erg... by orphea on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:48AM (#48881222)
.NET is not an intepreter. Also, it has been able to compile to a single binary for years.
Re:G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift erg... by arisudesu on Sunday July 12, 2026 @12:40PM (#48882444)
But it really is, in a sense that another program is required to interpret IL format, even if it is JIT-compiled after loading. Think of it similar to the ELF interpreter for dynamically-linked binaries.

Speaking of compilation to a self-contained binary, I hope in the future G# will support it. No mentions as of today though.

Re:G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift erg... by nobodyandproud on Sunday July 12, 2026 @02:27PM (#48883294)
That hasn’t been true for some time.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

The reason to dislike .NET is Microsoft’s now weak engineering. Their cloud team has negative impact on the entire org, and Microsoft engineers like Raymond Chen seem to be a rarity.

Even former cash cows like Windows and Office are struggling and infected with Nadella and Azure/Entra/365/who-knows-what-next’s touch.