It’s important to recognize that attempt didn’t fail for obscure reasons. It failed because .NET couldn’t accommodate standard C++, which all apps major are written in! Rather it required some heavily-constraining, non-standard, non-portable “Managed C++” extensions.
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Thus the birth of Mono and then Xamarin for hosting C# code in C++ apps, but given the combination of uncertainty of whose .NET to use on what platform, interop friction, and licensing issues, momentum stalled and .NET didn’t become an evolutionary successor circumscribing C++.
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javascript? :^)
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My understanding is that WebAssembly is adding GC primitives so that runtimes like the CLR could be implemented.
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If you think supporting many languages is of practical and strategic benefit, I just submitted a dev grant application for
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