On: Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanag...

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> move further away from the hardware in exchange for some language comforts & quality of life improvements

C# has descent native interop, i.e. [DllImport]. On Linux it imports from .so dynamic libraries. When you want to be closer to the hardware, because SIMD, or system calls not exposed to .NET, or integration with third-party C code, it usually works OK.

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C# has some SIMD support since version 6.

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Very limited support. On x86-64, the only languages that have good SIMD support are C (С++ gets that for free, ‘coz compatibility) and Fortran.

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There is also D and Object Pascal, unless you won't consider inline Assembly as having support.

Oh and Fortran of course.

But yeah, I also find it sad having to go down to Assembly to make use of them.