Re: Future directions for C# and Visual Basic
5 hours agoIf you want to make a high-performance numeric library, you'll often need to use the basic characteristics of the data type. [...] For performance, you need to use type-specific algorithms...
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@bcooley:Whoops, while I was composing my message you edited yours, so my answer looks a bit messy (I can't edit).posted by niall
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@bcooley>“There are many cases where how memory is managed for large mutable datasets gives native code a very wide margin of performance advantage.”I am aware of some of these cases, they can...
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I'll also point out that the above list looks very different for Mono, proving that "it didn't have to be this way".posted by bcooley
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Here is a comparison of iOS/Objective C and .NET in terms of what Objective-C supports that .NET does not that makes it work for Apple -> in the primary dev language role -- the role that .NET has...
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"Yep, with a lot of work, that few percent performance overhead C# currently has over C++ could have been almost completely removed. They chose to improve other areas that they considered more...
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It indeed looks like the development of C#/VB has slowed down since they began working on Roslyn, but it makes sense. They obviously can't finish a much more sophisticated compiler than the one they...
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@bcooley:“There's really so much that could be done to improve managed performance.”Yep, with a lot of work, that few percent performance overhead C# currently has over C++ could have been almost...
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Is the demo source code available? Thanks.posted by Nick
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There is famous quote by Otto von Bismarck "88 Professoren, Vaterland, du bist verloren" (i.e. "88 professors: Fatherland, you are lost":) ).I see that at Microsoft there are a lot of people from the...
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+5 Roslyn ProjectPaste As Visual Basic and Paste As C# SWEET!@LINQPad Lovers: This should allow us to have Intellisense for VB.NETLINQPad UserVoice AutoComplete for VB.NETposted by Airn5475
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There is nothing new! You can already use this "compiler as a service" feature byMicrosoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider CreateCompiler method.I really don't understand MS why they force HTML, JavaScript,...
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If Anders talks, smart people listen. He's always over-the-top. He's a hero since Delphi - a strong advocate for developers and business productivity. The only concern is that the lead soldier is...
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Will the MetroMovieFinder applications be available for download?posted by Chuck
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This is very exciting stuff. The whole concept of cloud computing and dynamic resource management is going to take a giant leap forward with Roslyn and async. Kudos.posted by Space_Cow
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@Jedrek as @Onur pointed out Mono's compiler is written in C# that makes it cool. What is cooler in Roslyn that it gives you intermediate results such as AST so that you can manipulate it. Mono's...
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I agree with bcooley. This is not metaprogramming. This is IDE programming. @Andrey REPL is not something difficult to implement@Jedrek they are very similar in deed. Whole Mono compiler is written...
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Andrey: First presentation of Compiler as a Service comes from PDC 2008 (http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/TL16)after that presentation Miguel de Icaza introduced that concept in Mono. There is...
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I am great fan of MS and their products, but I hate their disgusting manner in which they present "new" features that have been there for a while. Now I am speaking about this Compiler as a Service...
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What is impressive, MS pythonizes the using of the Console Mode in a better way.posted by scilar
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