OT; Will MS kill .NET ?

[Gambler]

On 8/20/2013 3:18 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 16:07:00 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.type.makegenerictype.aspx
>> How would you implement this in native code?
> 
> Like we use to do in the old days when we were forced to rewrite
> Assembly on the fly.
> 
> Allocate a memory buffer with the required sizes and perform the
> required set of initializations.
> 
> This is no different than constructing C++ classes during runtime,
> initializing the required helper structures like vtbl and calling
> constructors.
> 
> Nothing that cannot be done with either a set of helper functions on the
> language runtime, or generating inline code.
> 
> Yes, I am aware that this requires the ability to execute code from the
> data segment.
> 
> -- 
> Paulo

Isn't the approach you're describing *much* more error-prone than the
example above?