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by MichaelGG 4835 days ago
TryParse uses an out parameter. Java doesn't have that. AFAIK, the JVM has no way to represent pointers in any such fashion.

It's sort of ironic that the JVM, with it's limited Java-only bytecode has attracted so many languages, while the CLR, which is designed to handle multiple languages in an efficient manner, has relatively few.
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ScottBurson 4835 days ago
I started to reply that Microsoft could fix that by providing high-performance CLR implementations on all the platforms the JVM runs on.

But it occurred to me that even if they did so, a lot of people wouldn't trust them to continue to support the other platforms indefinitely. The only way around that would be for them to spin off the entire .NET division.

Microsoft being Microsoft, of course, they would never do any of this.

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notimetorelax 4835 days ago
To me it's a huge deal how portable my software is. CLR is very much tied to Windows. I know that there are other implementations but they always lag behind.
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