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Comment by valcron1000

Pretty much everything:

> While C# does have AOT capabilities nowadays this is not as mature as Go's and not all platforms support it

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

Only Android is missing from that list (marked as "Experimental"). We could argue about maturity but this is a bit subjective.

> Go also has somewhat better control over data layout

How? C# supports structs, ref structs (stack allocated only structures), explicit stack allocation (`stackalloc`), explicit struct field layouts through annotations, control over method local variable initialization, control over inlining, etc. Hell, C# even supports a somewhat limited version of borrow checking through the `scoped` keyword.

> This is meant to be something of a 1:1 port rather than a rewrite, and the old code uses plain functions and data structures without an OOP style.

C# has been consistently moving into that direction by taking more and more inspiration from F#.

The only reasonable reason would be extensive usage of structural typing which is present in TS and Go but not in C#.

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