For decades, software portability has been a holy grail. The classic tools—autotools, CMake find_package, or Java’s “WORA” (Write Once, Run Anywhere)—were reactive. They told you at compile time if something was missing. The old guard of portability analyzers (e.g., ldd, depends.exe, scanelf) answered one question: “Does this binary have unresolved symbols?”
The paper (and the associated tool) addresses the challenge of migrating legacy .NET applications to modern, cross-platform environments (such as moving from .NET Framework to .NET Core/.NET 5+). portability analyzer new
References for further deep dive: