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Because it is 2016 I guess?

So many languages did this for so long and then VMs got in vogue. Go not doing it was, for many people, a reminder it could be done.

But for a managed language runtime like the CLR to start supporting it is a big deal.




Well, mono has supported this for a while now. This is what Xamarin.iOS is based on.


This is true. It's funny because the api's have always existed in the Microsoft compliers but they would litterally throw not implemented errors when run. Mono actually implemented them.


I guess this tells how much mono-culture is still prevalent in the industry, with silo language programming and no CS knowledge.

But I do agree it is a big deal, specially for getting more developers to adopt safer programming languages.




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