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I had to use a jar in a .net program. Do you know how much of a pain in the ass that was?

That is very nasty joke sir.

Sometimes our daily job tasks are nastier jokes than we would like to admit.

Is IKVM not a thing anymore these days?

Not really, and last time I checked there were no plans to ever migrate it to core.

Woa, bummer! That stuff was amazing. It opened up the entire Java ecosystem to .net apps, in an impressively seamless way.

Here, the project end announcement.