On: How to not rewrite it in Rust

[The_rationalist]

Do you know how much c++/cli is automatically compatible with c# code? And how much does it retain compatibility with standard c++?

[pjmlp → The_rationalist]

Everything that obeys to CLS.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/language-in...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/dotnet/managed-types-cp...

Then you can also use regular low level stuff, but in that case you will get mixed mode Assemblies (other forms are now deprecated).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/dotnet/mixed-native-and...

C++/CLI is basically a set of language extensions, just like clang and gcc have theirs.

Right now it supports up to C++14, if I am not mistaken.

Many don't seem to realise that CLR started as the next evolution of COM, with the required machinery to support VB, C#, J# and C++, alongside any other language that could fit the same kind of semantics.

[The_rationalist → pjmlp]

Thank you, this is very interesting!