Microsoft's CoreRT turns C# into cross-platform C++

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3131551/open-source-tools/microsofts-corert-turns-c-into-cross-platform-c.html

by osopanda • 10 years ago

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marisma2• 10 years ago

This has already been submitted to HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12735260

Using the search tool is not that difficult

valarauca12• 10 years ago

Serious question. What search tool?

mrsteveman1• 10 years ago

There isn't one on the site itself, but people frequently use this https://hn.algolia.com/

marisma2• 10 years ago

This little box with a "Search" label which is sitting at the bottom of the page.

fnl• 10 years ago

Given how often this happens, maybe existing links should at least trigger a warning to the submitter?

VOYD• 10 years ago

what? you mean like Reddit? ;)

detaro• 10 years ago

Reading the rules and noticing that some reposts are allowed isn't either.

(But yes, in general people should check for other submissions before submitting something, it would reduce the noise in /new a lot and help giving content that is less mass-appealing a better chance to be noticed. Also, if you feel to much "crap" ends up on the front page, go check /new and help upvote better submissions)

valarauca12• 10 years ago

The use case is advertised as allowing you to port code to new devices. But the github repo says it only supports Ubuntu, OSX, and Windows. Lastly C++ isn't generally considered a portable language.

Frankly the idea of porting a C# runtime to a new platform sounds more exciting then debugging 10,000SLoC of machine generated C++ to a new arch.

charlesdm2• 10 years ago

If they only use a limited subset of C++, it is a pretty portable language. If they use all bells and whistles the language has to offer, then it will be a nightmare.

RantyDave• 10 years ago

Why the limited subset? I know that STL and embedded aren't the best of friends but where else is there a problem? Is it the threading stuff?

ultimateedition• 10 years ago

Unity has already developed their own AOT compiler.

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/05/06/an-introduction-to-ilcp...

Microsoft's CoreRT turns C# into cross-platform C++

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