[wesamco]

I doubt it's going to be a first-class citizen like Java anytime soon.

there is a lot of Innovation going on, with the new open source .NET. the CoreRT[1] project compiles C#->C++->Machine code for any platform, including ARM. and Samsung has been a big contributor to make that happen. and today during the Connect() event, they announced that every Xamarin forms app will run on Tizen[2].

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/corert [2] https://www.tizen.org/blogs/dh0922/2016/tizen-.net-developer...

[ygra]

Where did you get that they compile C# to C++? I thought .NET Native was compiling to machine code, maybe with IL in between, but certainly not via another high-level language.

[wesamco]

https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/Documentation/i...

[ygra]

Ah, thanks. Didn't notice that part. So it's more an option, among others, while the "normal" .NET Native toolchain directly goes the IL → machine code route via RyuJIT.

[pjmlp]

.NET Native doesn't use RyuJIT, rather Visual C++'s backend.

CoreRT uses RyuJIT.