Native LINQ under active development?
I got a very interesting response to my last post, about missing features in extended RTTI. Barry Kelly wrote in a comment,
There wasn’t any increase in [RTTI] coverage for XE because other work had priority (64-bit, x-plat, a front end that could support LINQ, more things that I can’t talk about).
None of this actually showed up in XE. The cross-platform work was supposed to, right up until a couple months ago, but they deferred it because it wasn’t ready yet. And the 64-bit work’s been promised but not delivered yet for a long time. (Now they say it’ll be in XE2. I sure hope so!) But… LINQ support in the compiler? Under active development and not a “more things I can’t talk about”? Wow, when did this happen?
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