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		naasking 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: .NET 10 .NET needs runtime code generation for some of its core features, like generics. Bytecode makes this much easier.

osigurdson 5 months ago [–]

I agree that .NET uses bytecode and likely cannot practically remove it outside of narrow cases. My argument is, if .NET were a greenfield project, they likely would not use bytecode today.

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