Richard Lander, Author at .NET Blog

Richard Lander Program Manager, .NET Team: Richard Lander is a Program Manager on the .NET team. He works on making .NET work great in memory-limited Docker containers, on Arm hardware like the Raspberry Pi, and enabling GPIO programming and IoT scenarios. He is part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features. Favourite fantasy: Dune and Doctor Who. He grew up in Canada and New Zealand.

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Conversation about .NET interop

June 1st, 2021

Conversation with .NET engineers about native, language, and operating system interop. They share their perspectives on modern programming languages, low-level concepts like calling conventions and marshaling, performance, comparing .NET and Java Interop, and a new project that adds support for Interop with Objective-C.

Announcing .NET 6 Preview 4

May 25th, 2021

.NET 6 Preview 4 is now available.

Show dotnet: Investigating Alpine Linux CVEs in .NET container images

May 21st, 2021

The results of a Alpine Linux CVE investigation and new guidance on using .NET images.

Conversation about ready to run

May 19th, 2021

Conversation with .NET engineers about the ready to run executable format. They share their perspective on the origins of ready to run, the strengths and weaknesses of the format, and comparing it to both IL and Native AOT.

Conversation about PGO

May 18th, 2021

Conversation with .NET engineers about profile guided optimization (PGO). They share their perspectives on how PGO works, how it improves even sophisticated compilers, other platforms that have good PGO systems, and what .NET is doing to provide better performance with PGO.

Conversation about crossgen2

April 22nd, 2021

Conversation with .NET engineers about crossgen2. They share their perspective on what Crossgen is for, what's new with Crossgen v2, its similarities to the Roslyn project, and all the new performance features it enables.