CoreCLR Update @ GDC 2025?

[carlos_uws]

Yeah, sorry, my wording was a bit confusing.

Richard said that in the first release of CoreCLR, their runtime code will use .NET 8 features, but user code will still be under .NET Standard 2.1.
I mean, that’s Unity 7, and the feature-complete version will be Unity 8.

Resourcing concerns for .NET Modernisation

No, we’d be running with the .NET 8 BCL, but we would only offer NETStandard21 as a profile for code compilation in the initial releases. So the only APIs you’d “see” from your code would be the same NETStandard21 surface that you see in most projects today. I know it’s limiting, but it allows us to focus on issues around Mono/CoreCLR parity before tackling issues arising from new .NET 8 features, as well as avoiding laying a trap where people use .NET 8 APIs in the Editor before discovering t…