Edison Design Group

The Edison Design Group has made its C++ front-end publicly available, opening up a compiler component long licensed to tool vendors and used inside major commercial compilers. Developers are discussing what wider access to the EDG front-end could mean for compiler research, tooling and standards work.

Edison Design Group has released the source code of its widely used C/C++ compiler frontend, long kept proprietary and licensed to major compiler vendors. The C++ Alliance is taking over further development of the code, making one of the industry's most respected parser implementations available to the broader community for the first time.

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.