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kfuse | 3 months ago

Updated a pet project of mine and got a minor break:

  var pixels = new uint[renderers.width * renderers.height];
  var pixels2 = MemoryMarshal.Cast<uint, ulong>(pixels);
  pixels2[idx] = ...
In NET9.0 pixels2 were Span<ulong>, but in NET10.0 a different MemoryMarshal.Cast overload is used and it is ReadOnlySpan<ulong> now, so the assignment fails.

Spans is such a fundamental tool for low level programming. It is really unfortunate they were added relatively late to the language. Now every new version includes a slew of improvements related to them but they will never be as good as if they were there from the start or at least as early as generics were.

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