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The first developer of Vulcan.NET was Don Caton, but later also Paul Piko, Robert v.d. Hulst, Chris Pyrgas, Nikos Kokkalis and Fabrice Foray were part of the development team. | The first developer of Vulcan.NET was Don Caton, but later also Paul Piko, Robert v.d. Hulst, Chris Pyrgas, Nikos Kokkalis and Fabrice Foray were part of the development team. | ||
- | But the product had not the desired commercial success, and so GrafX decided to cut down the development team. | + | But the product had not the desired commercial success, and so GrafX decided to cut down the development team. |
- | At this time Microsoft released the sources of their C# and VB.NET compiler as open source (called Project Roslyn), and after checking the possibilities, | + | At this time Microsoft released the sources of their C# and VB.NET compiler as open source (called Project Roslyn |
But very fast the new X# compiler supported features Vulcan.NET never had supported, like the definition of generics, LinQ, AnyCPU platform and many more. And on the other side, it was more compatible to Visual Objects than Vulcan.NET ever was. | But very fast the new X# compiler supported features Vulcan.NET never had supported, like the definition of generics, LinQ, AnyCPU platform and many more. And on the other side, it was more compatible to Visual Objects than Vulcan.NET ever was. | ||
- | Today X# is a mature product and can be used with the Vulcan.NET | + | The last step in the Vulcan.NET |
+ | Today X# is a mature product and can be used with the Vulcan.NET runtime and class libraries, and the work on their own runtime and macro compiler is in process. The first beta of the runtime together with the macrocompiler (but without RDDs) was released in June 2018, first to the FoX group, and then to the general public. | ||
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