alt Hacker News1. this is cool / innovative
2. had lots of fun with similar we should chain / tunnel this to this it can’t be done easily projects
3. fond memories reverse engineering JNI 1.0 to let Java only devs use C libs, get C# 1.0 to pipe via C++ to call C serial port driver for early drone microcontroller etc
all to say / nice work / keep building / like that it solves your very specific AI anywhere problem in JetBrains even tho it seems like wait where to even start! It can’t be done! Like Microsoft once told me re: C# 1.0
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tymscar • today at 12:17 AM
Projects like this are at the heart of what it means to be a hacker.
Its extremely fun to have a clear requirement that is not supported by a piece of software that you use and then work around it until it works
Given that Managed C++ was part of .NET 1.0, replaced with C++/CLI with .NET 2.0, and one of the first things I did with .NET was a bindings library for a RPC framework written in C, via Managed C++, I wonder what Microsoft was telling you it cannot be done.