Why not use ref?

• .NET Runtime

  607 14,091 10.0 C#

  .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.

  

Specifically on the implicit semantics, this is why Unsafe.IsNullRef takes ref T (and I did argue heavily in favor of using in but was ultimately outvoted). You can see more details on this here: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/31170

• ImageSharp

  34 7,106 9.7 C#

  :camera: A modern, cross-platform, 2D Graphics library for .NET

  

High performance code with no pinning (eg. here, here, here, here)

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• UWP Community Toolkit

  20 5,770 2.0 C#

  The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.

  

High performance code with no pinning (eg. here, here, here, here)

• terrafx.interop.windows

  7 232 8.1 C#

  Interop bindings for Windows.

  

Literally any direct port of C++ objects (eg. here, here)

• terrafx.interop.d3d12memoryallocator

  1 18 5.9 C#

  Interop bindings for D3D12MemoryAllocator

  

Literally any direct port of C++ objects (eg. here, here)

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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