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signaru 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Python with Braces

Maybe no longer true today, but with the right tools, C# and VB.NET used to be auto translatable from each other and IL can be decompiled to either.

hermitdev 10 months ago [–]

It was only ever true for "clr safe" code, or a subset of C#. In particular, since VB.NET didn't/doesn't have unsigned types, not all C# could be expressed in VB.NET, even after decompiling from IL. (Not sure what happens if you try and decompile to VB.NET code that uses unsigned, for example).

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