OT; Will MS kill .NET ?

[PauloPinto]

On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 01:40:05 UTC, Gambler wrote:
> 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?

It is the compiler that generates the code, what is error prone 
about it?


--
Paulo