Speculative changes to high-level plan

[kant2002]

This is to gather feedback from core team,
and maybe improve documentation slightly

[jkotas]

Suggested change

	## Interop
	## COM Interop

[jkotas]

80% of the items in this list are done, and the rest is unclear or abandoned. Maybe it would be best to delete this file, and just use github issues for tracking?

[kant2002]

if it 80% or something just not applicable it would be more damaging to the reader to actually read. it give impression of abandon-ware. From my point of view, tech is more or less mature, but need investing and polishing. At least I hope so. Better that somebody come up with another document which explain more modern goals.

I personally see (can do probably) something like evaluation of well-known libraries, and how well they are behave under CoreRT. Example of what I thought can be helpful to read

• ASP.NET Core
• EF Core
• System.Net.Http
• Windows Forms
• WPF
• COM Interop
• PInvoke
• Blazor
• IdentityServer

All that is well-known MS technologies. For sure list can contains not only MS tech. This is document from consumer perspective, but for sure I personally would like to read overview of what's left from core dev perspective.

[jkotas]

Agree. We are not planning to do that in isolation for just CoreRT.

Number of the technologies on your list do not work well for single file or IL linker, without any full AOT or CoreRT in the picture. Both single file and IL linker issues are being worked on for .NET 5.

[kant2002]

I'm not shy try some tech on .NET 5 if that improve CoreRT story. If you think it can somehow help me create smaller files. I personally do not care about SingleFile as long as it is 200Mb. That's my main reason for looking at CoreRT, plus Blazor

Regarding some tech which may not working under CoreRT - I believe it is better know what's not (hopefully) yet working. If large parts of BCL is mostly working, it will be very interesting to know (read in docs). File system + Http can go you relatively far. If SqlClient/NgSql is working it moves you even further etc.