MSBUILD 2014, C# gets an ahead of time compiler to native code.

[Orvid King]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:24:00 -0500, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> So it finally happened, C# gets an AOT compiler in addition to NGEN/JIT
> as part of standard Visual Studio tools.
>
> http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/02/microsoft-updates-visual-studio-with-support-for-universal-projects-typescript-1-0-and-net-native-code-compilation/
>
> More information will be provided in the native sessions tomorrow and on
> Friday.
>
> Posting this as it has direct implications into D's adoption.
>
> --
> Paulo
>

NGen's been around since .net 2.0, all the native compilation is that they  
are talking about is just a few stubs and a nice pretty interface for  
developers to work with. They do not currently intend to support the AOT  
compilation for desktops, not in the way that D does at least. Microsoft's  
AOT interface will also only ever support Windows. If Apple is very lucky,  
they might support it on OSX, but it will never make it to Linux. All in  
all, this news is basically no news :P It's also been possible to AOT  
compile a .net program with mono on linux and deploy it with no  
dependencies for quite a while now.