[OT] Unity migrating parts of their engine from C++ into High Performace C# (HPC#)

[Meta]

On Tuesday, 3 April 2018 at 04:50:15 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> On Monday, 2 April 2018 at 22:55:58 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> On Monday, 2 April 2018 at 20:19:17 UTC, rumbu wrote:
>
>>>
>>> void foo<T>(IRange<T> someRange)
>>> {
>>>    //do something with someRange even it's a struct
>>>    //this includes code completion and other IDE specific 
>>> stuff.
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> In D, template constrains are not very clean and they not 
>>> have IDE support:
>>>
>>> void foo(T)(T someRange) if (isInputRange!T)
>>> {
>>>
>>> }
>>
>> Worth mentioning is that doing this necessarily causes the 
>> struct to be boxed. I would not be surprised if they ban 
>> structs inheriting from interfaces.
>
> HPC# allows interface inheritance, but does not box structs. 
> It's clearly stated in the video (15:30). In fact, boxing would 
> bring up the GC, and GC is not allowed in HPC#.

Oh, that's really neat (was on mobile and could not watch the 
video).