Extra! Extra! Generics CLS-compliant in Whidbey!

Peter Drayton comes bearing good news for people who like .NET 2.0 Generics – they’ll be CLS-compliant in Whidbey. This means that developers no longer have to make a choice between the power of generics and the cross-language support implied by strict CLS compliance.

It looks like the CLS rules will be amended to require all languages to support at least the consumption of generic types – you might not be able to write new generic types or methods, but you’ll at least be able to consume them. This is goodness.