Common Intermediate Language

Common Intermediate Language (CIL), formerly called Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) or Intermediate Language (IL), is the intermediate language binary instruction set defined within the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specification. CIL instructions are executed by a CLI-compatible runtime environment such as the Common Language Runtime. Languages which target the CLI compile to CIL. CIL is object-oriented, stack-based bytecode. Runtimes typically just-in-time compile CIL instructions into native code. Wikipedia

Created Year: 2000
Developed by: Microsoft
Operating systems: cross-platform
Aliases: CIL, MSIL

Wikidata: Q263544

Influenced by: Java

Programming paradigms: object-oriented programming