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This is part of a series on Native AOT. Previous -- Top A few weeks ago I published some samples showing the use of Native AOT libraries from Rust. As I mentioned, the projection of .NET APIs to Rust requires quite a few ergonomic compromises. For example, the following line in C# is a call to the QuestPDF method to set the size of a page: ...

This is part of a series on Native AOT. Previous -- Top -- Next I have finally published a preview release of the Native AOT binding generator I've been working on. I wouldn't call it "production-ready" yet, but having the tool publicly available makes it more tangible and real. Folks can give it a try, and give feedback if they wish. There's a...

This is part of a series on Native AOT. Previous -- Top -- Next Developing with .NET often involves delegates, which we can think of as objects that represent things that are callable. For example: public static int count_files_with_e(string path) { return System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(path) .Where(x => x.Contains("e")) ...

This is part of a series on Native AOT. Previous -- Top -- Next So far in this blog series, I have been writing about Native AOT mostly in the context of libraries, discussing how things work at a fairly low level. For this post, I want to take a step back and look at the big picture, and the road ahead. Where is all this going? Why do we care...

This is part of a series on Native AOT. Previous -- Top -- Next In the previous chapter, we talked about GCHandle as a way to pass object references into native code. Let's dive a little deeper and talk about a problem that can happen with these object handles in the context of Native AOT. As we said in the previous chapter, the IntPtr from a...