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Edison Design Group
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The Edison Design Group has made its long-standing proprietary C++ compiler front-end publicly available, a shift the company describes on its site as a transition. The EDG front-end has been widely licensed inside commercial compilers and tooling for decades, so opening it up is drawing significant attention from compiler developers and language tooling experts.
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Edison Design Group has open-sourced its C/C++ front-end, the compiler component long licensed to tool vendors and used in commercial compilers. The move puts a mature, widely relied-upon parsing and semantic-analysis engine into open source, a notable shift for a company whose front-ends were previously proprietary. Developers are discussing what this means for compiler tooling and alternatives like Clang.
- 3EDG makes its C++ front-end publicly available●EDG C++ front-end goes public https://edgcpp.org/#transition # HackerNews # Tech # Cpp
Edison Design Group, the long-standing independent compiler front-end vendor, has announced that its C++ front-end is going public, with details posted on a new site describing the transition. The EDG front-end has been licensed for decades by major compiler and tooling vendors but was never directly available to the wider community. Developers are discussing what the change could mean for C++ tooling and open-source compilers.