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Welcome to C# 10

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21
Kathleen Dollard
Check out the great new features in C# 10 as part of .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022, that make your code prettier, more expressive, and faster.

Announcing Open Source C# standardization

April 5, 2021 Apr 5, 2021 04/5/21
Bill Wagner
The C# standards committee moved its work into Open Source. ECMA worked with the .NET Foundation, enabling C# developers worldwide to participate in the standardization effort. Visit the C# standards repo for more information.

Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core

September 3, 2019 Sep 3, 2019 09/3/19
Tanner Gooding [MSFT]
Several years ago, we decided that it was time to support SIMD code in .NET. We introduced the System.Numerics namespace with Vector2, Vector3, Vector4, Vector<T>, and related types. These types expose a general-purpose API for creating, accessing, and operating on them using hardware vector instructions (when available). They also ...