[aghilmort]

1. this is cool / innovative

2. had lots of fun with similar we should chain / tunnel this to this it can’t be done easily projects

3. fond memories reverse engineering JNI 1.0 to let Java only devs use C libs, get C# 1.0 to pipe via C++ to call C serial port driver for early drone microcontroller etc

all to say / nice work / keep building / like that it solves your very specific AI anywhere problem in JetBrains even tho it seems like wait where to even start! It can’t be done! Like Microsoft once told me re: C# 1.0

[tymscar]

Projects like this are at the heart of what it means to be a hacker.

Its extremely fun to have a clear requirement that is not supported by a piece of software that you use and then work around it until it works

[pjmlp]

Given that Managed C++ was part of .NET 1.0, replaced with C++/CLI with .NET 2.0, and one of the first things I did with .NET was a bindings library for a RPC framework written in C, via Managed C++, I wonder what Microsoft was telling you it cannot be done.

[aghilmort]

we had to call a serial port and according to MSFT compiler team, C# 1.0 (it was basically the first public release off C#) it couldn't talk to C control library we had to use from vendor, so somehow hacked a C# to C++ to C thing and back again at the time. Then they were like oh, ok ya, that could work after it was done

timeframe was circa 2002-2004 give or take, the C lib we had to use was closed source