announcements VS CoreCLR

I don't think that works. That would alert you about the security alerts on the Security tab of the dotnet/announcements repo, which are empty, not about issues that contain information about .Net security issues.

.NET Core 2.0 Cryptography uses Apple Security Framework on macOS · Issue #21 · dotnet/announcements (github.com)

Yeah, it's a fun meme, but there have been a few nasty RCE vulnerabilities patched on .NET Core in the last couple years. Like this one: https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/178

If you started receiving errors when pulling old versions of dotnet docker images (like the .NET 2.1), it's because Microsoft deleted them from Docker Hub on August 21st, 2021. That date is not a coincidence, the .NET Core 2.1 reached end of support in the same date. For more details take a look at the official dotnet announcement or also the dotnet blog. In my case, the error bellow was thrown in the stdout when pulling the microsoft/dotnet:2.2-aspnetcore-runtime image:

I'm not entirely sure what that means. We're done porting .NET Framework APIs to .NET Core / .NET 5. .NET Framework is what it is now, and .NET is moving forward with .NET 6+. If it is worth porting your code to .NET 6, it is. If not, then it isn't. Both can be good choices. .NET Core on Linux, however, is absolutely not preview.

Yes, that is true. I'm not sure about JVM implementation details but the reason the comment says "virtual and interface" calls is to outline the difference. Virtual calls in .NET are sufficiently close[0] to virtual calls in C++. Interface calls, however, are coded differently[1].

Also you are correct - virtual calls are not terribly expensive, but they encroach on ever limited* CPU resources like indirect jump and load predictors and, as noted in parent comments, block inlining, which is highly undesirable for small and frequently called methods, particularly when they are in a loop.

* through great effort of our industry to take back whatever performance wins each generation brings with even more abstractions that fail to improve our productivity

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/4895a06c/src/vm/amd64...

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core... (mind you, the text was initially written 18 ago, wow)

Sort of, some topic are not relevant anymore, consider this - https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/tree/master/Documentation/botr

Fairly advanced stuff but the Book Of The Runtime (BOTR) it's a invaluable resource

After that you can check out the The Book of the Runtime, which is the CoreCLR version of the previous book.

Technically the restrictions already exist, just as a part of the development experience.

- .NET Hot Reload is only implemented on Windows. It requires support in the .NET runtime, which is technically possible to implement, but the team has not gotten around to implementing it for years. This doesn't have to do with the issue around MS removing the "dotnet watch" command, it's for the "Edit and Continue" feature in IDEs.[1][2]

- MS was considering deprecating Omnisharp, the open-source language server that implements C# support for VS Code, and replacing it with a closed-source version. Since the announcement, commits to omnisharp-vscode have dropped off significantly. The lack of Omnisharp would mean there would be no real open-source C# development environment for Linux anymore, since MonoDevelop was abandoned a few years ago. [3]

[1] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-31366/EditContinu...

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/23685

[3] https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276

The next step is to realize everything you think you know about .NET is just an abstraction. Next step is to learn about what is going on behind all that syntax sugar and facades. 1st step might be https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/tree/master/Documentation/botr then go down the rabbit hole and have fun

Book of the Runtime

As for the books, back in the days I really enjoyed reading “CLR via C#" by Jeffrey Richter which helped a lot to understand what is under the hood. Other from that, try The Book of the Runtime