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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 04/09/2026

The most problematic thing usually solved with reflection is serialization where the string that needs to be adapted is literally downloaded from the internet. But I applaud this because it might be the thing to allow Android apps to be AOT compiled native AOT style

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 03/09/2026

(You now have to obfuscate anything you submit to the store and obfuscation breaks reflection randomly.)

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 19/05/2026

I'll be speaking at the .NET Developers meetup in Tokyo on June 9th!

Tokyo .NET Developers Meetup #67 - Native AOT And Runtime Async, RSVP at tokyo-dotnet.com

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 06/05/2026

4/N Anyway here it is: github.com/MichalStreho.... I'll probably vibe on it a bit more later. It only has one test running in the CI and it literally is DOOM (ensuring we play the expected demoloop). I hit surprisingly few bugs getting DOOM to run with it (once it got past init, it worked), but YMMV

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GitHub - MichalStrehovsky/chibil: C compiler for .NET

C compiler for .NET. Contribute to MichalStrehovsky/chibil development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 06/05/2026

3/N I would probably never actually get to it, but if Anthropic can build an optimizing C compiler from scratch, why wouldn't I be able to make one if I take extra shortcuts (e.g. base it on an existing small C compiler written in C).

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 06/05/2026

1/N I vibe-coded a C compiler that targets .NET IL. It can build unmodified PureDOOM into a .NET app that runs on both .NET 10 and desktop framework.

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Ahmed Walid @ahmedwalid.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

.NET 11 (NativeAOT) on Windows ARM32!!

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 08/12/2025

Found Sokol.NET - C# bindings for the Sokol crossplat gfx framework. If you haven't heard about Sokol, it's a C header-only library to build crossplat gfx/audio apps (games). Sokol.NET wraps it for C# (Win/Linux/Mac/Android/iOS/WASM). Tons of samples. Also native AOT: github.com/elix22/Sokol...

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GitHub - elix22/Sokol.NET: Cross-platform graphics framework for C# with .NET NativeAOT | Desktop • Mobile • Web | Direct3D • Metal • OpenGL • WebGL

Cross-platform graphics framework for C# with .NET NativeAOT | Desktop • Mobile • Web | Direct3D • Metal • OpenGL • WebGL - elix22/Sokol.NET

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 07/11/2025

:(. Well at least they added back (an option) to see seconds to the taskbar clock flyout. Maybe proper small icons will come back next.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 07/11/2025

I really hope the Windows UX team will not go this far. Clearly they are mac users so everything is possible

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 07/11/2025

Sorry but the off-color corner of the new Word icon looks like a compression artifact when taskbar is set to small (and sorry but small & never combine & show labels is the only correct taskbar configuration on Windows, this is not macOS).

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 01/11/2025

How? Typescript to CIL to native? Go for it. You can also just use stock native AOT. The advantage of bflat is really just no friction crosscompilation.

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valentinbreiz.bsky.social @valentinbreiz.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Cosmos Gen3: The NativeAOT Era and the End of IL2CPU? valentin.bzh/posts/3 #dotnet #osdev #csharp

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 10/07/2025

You'd need to debug the compiler. Either try to find the thing that first triggered it yourself or try reaching out to the email address listed at dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platfo.... Make sure you're using the latest version of the .NET Native package.

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.NET Native release and support policy | .NET

Learn about .NET Native support and lifecycle policies.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 09/07/2025

Usually this is some NuGet that targets NetStandard2.0 (so it can be consumed from .NET Native) but uses a very recent language version (NetStandard 2.0 only officially supports up to C# 7.4; things can be hacked to allow higher version but it's unsupported). E.g. github.com/StackExchang...

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UWP Native compiler error · Issue #2212 · StackExchange/StackExchange.Redis

I have a UWP project When I want build this solution in Release Configuration I got a below error 1>C:\Users\ssoroosh\.nuget\packages\microsoft.net.native.compiler\2.2.12-rel-31116-00\tools\Microso...

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 19/06/2025

I'm glad you like them! I don't post on medium anymore so the latest things are at migeel.sk

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 06/06/2025

I miss the early days of .NET

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/05/2025

Ah, rookie mistake, this is how you get a very cursed notepad.exe: bsky.app/profile/mige...

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/05/2025

If you don't want to retrain muscle memory and don't care for the new notepad: bsky.app/profile/mige...

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Washi @washi-dev.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

After #flareon11 challenge 7, I got inspired to build tooling for #dotnet Native AOT reverse engineering. As such, I built a #Ghidra Analyzer that can automatically recover most .NET types, methods and frozen objects (e.g., strings). 👉https://blog.washi.dev/posts/recovering-nativeaot-metadata/

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Jb Evain @jb.evain.net · 20/03/2025

A small template to write self-contained Win32 services in C# with NativeAOT: gist.github.com/jbevain/b295...

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Service.cs

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 06/03/2025

Ak bude mať Rusko spoločnú hranicu s Moldavskom tak tie mapy dlho aktuálne nebudú.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 04/03/2025

The default value for this property in the SDK is just wrong.

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Kevin Gosse @kevingosse.net · 11/02/2025

I've published the third part of my series of articles about writing a .NET garbage collector in C#. In this one, we add a helper method to inspect the objects in memory, learning about thread modes and the DAC. minidump.net/writing-a-ne... #dotnet

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Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# - Part 3

Using NativeAOT to write a .NET GC in C#. The third part adds some tooling to inspect the objects stored on the heap.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

Looking forward to read more about your GC adventures!

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

10/ Then add a MyGC_ prefix to all your UnmanagedCallersOnly methods and they should get exported without the prefix.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

9/ You can write an MSBuild task that takes $(ExportsFile), reads all lines in it, and Regex.Replace(line, @"MyGC_(\w+)", "$1=MyGC_$1") and write back to $(ExportsFile). Have the MSBuild target run BeforeTargets=LinkNative.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

8/ We want this instead: EXPORTS GC_Initialize=MyGC_GC_Initialize

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

7/ By default the DEF file that native AOT compiler creates for UnmanagedCallersOnly("MyGC_GC_Initialize") looks like this: EXPORTS MyGC_GC_Initialize

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

6/ That's possible solution one. Possible solution two involves munging the .def file that native AOT compiler creates so that we can use "If the name that you export differs from the name in the DLL, specify the export's name" from the EXPORTS docs.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

5/ Like this: EXPORTS GC_Initialize=MyNativeAotDll.MyGC_Initialize Put this in a shim.def file and run link.exe like this: `link /dll /def:shim.def /out:shim.dll /noentry`. This produces a DLL with GC_Initialize export that is forwarded to MyGC_Initialize in MyNativeAotDll.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

4/ It's possible to build forwarder DLLs that simply forward to a symbol in a different DLL without writing a single line of code.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

3/ The interesting part of the doc: "If the name that you export is from some other module, specify the export's name in the DLL".

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

2/ The DEF file has an EXPORTS section that describes what the DLL exports. The Native AOT compiler makes one when building a DLL. The full docs for the EXPORTS section are here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/bu...

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EXPORTS

Learn more about: EXPORTS

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 29/01/2025

1/ Oh, this has actually two more solutions. To control what gets exported from DLLs on Windows, one needs to pass a DEF file to link.exe.

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Kevin Gosse @kevingosse.net · 28/01/2025

After writing a profiler in C#, I've now published the first of a series of articles about how use C# to... write a .NET Garbage Collector. #dotnet minidump.net/2025-28-01-w...

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Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# - Part 1

First part of a series of articles about writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# using NativeAOT. This part sets the expectations and setups the project, dealing with the first difficulties.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 24/01/2025

Cool project: a hypervisor-based emulator for Windows x64 user-mode executables. One of my first thoughts upon seeing it - "I wonder if it's also possible to call the Windows hypervisor APIs from C#". github.com/x86matthew/W...

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GitHub - x86matthew/WinVisor: WinVisor - A hypervisor-based emulator for Windows x64 user-mode executables using Windows Hypervisor Platform API

WinVisor - A hypervisor-based emulator for Windows x64 user-mode executables using Windows Hypervisor Platform API - x86matthew/WinVisor

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Kevin Gosse @kevingosse.net · 07/01/2025

I published part 5 of my "Writing a .NET profiler in C#" series. All the foundations built in the previous articles have been moved to a library named Silhouette. In this new article, we finally have everything we need to write an actual profiler. minidump.net/writing-a-ne... #dotnet

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Writing a .NET profiler in C# - Part 5

Part 5 of the series about using NativeAOT to write a .NET profiler in C#. We have all the foundations, we’re finally writing an actual profiler.

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Kirill Osenkov @kirillosenkov.com · 29/12/2024

Finally had time over the holidays to realize a long-standing dream of mine: a hex editor that knows about the PE file and .NET metadata format. You can click any byte and it will show you which data structure it is in the tree. Every byte is covered. The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...

Screenshot of a hex editor with a PE file open, on the left there's a tree with the headers, sections and other parts of the file format. On the right there's a typical table of bytes in hex.

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Kyle Kukshtel @kkukshtel.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

got my custom sokol-backed c# game engine zinc compiling to wasm using nativeaot-llvm! and for anyone else headed in a similar direction, I spent some time writing up what it took, what bugs I encountered, etc! give it a read here #gamedev #zinc #csharp kylekukshtel.com/csharp-wasm-...

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So You Want To Compile Your C# Game Engine To The Web With WASM - k-hole

Diving into the NativeAOT-LLVM compile chain to make my game engine work on the web

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 19/12/2024

For native DLLs you could try Sizebench or Bloaty. For managed DLLs I don't know of a tool.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 19/12/2024

That's essentially how it's set up. sizoscope is compiled with PublishAot. There is a dotnet tool that launches it. If you're on non-Windows, the dotnet tool will launch sizoscope through Wine. If you don't have Wine, it will tell you to install it.

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Michal Strehovský @migeel.sk · 19/12/2024

Works fine under Wine on Linux, I just ran it like that today. If you have Wine installed, it will "just work". Win32 is the only stable usermode ABI on Linux; shipping Linux-native binaries of a UI app is just endless pain making Snaps and dealing with Arch users.

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