Robert Ramey <ramey <at> rrsd.com> writes:
the advantages of C++/CLI are not obvious to me. Could you enumerate them?
Depends on what you compare it to. A few advantages I can see are 1. Compared to some other popular .Net languages - Templates - Stack semantics - Deterministic destruction 2. Compared to C++ - Easy access to a huge "standard" library including GUI, WebServices and databases. I don't know if these things are advantages for your applications or if they outweight the disadvantages but they can for some of mine. I assume a lot of c++ programmers will move in and out of the .Net world and switch between C++ and C++/CLI frequenctly. Boost (and STL) support in both worlds allows both code and knowledge reuse. Not all of boost makes sense to use in C++/CLI but I think some like multi_index, lambda, mpl, tuple and filesystem has a place there.