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

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 21:03:18 UTC, Orvid King wrote:
> 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.

It is more than just ngen, it makes use of Visual C++ backend.

I am following it.

All the niffty details to be unwrapped on Friday it seems.

--
Paulo