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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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The Edison Design Group has open-sourced its C/C++ front-end, according to a report by Phoronix. The EDG front-end is a long-established compiler front-end widely licensed by commercial compiler and tooling vendors, so its release as open source is notable news for compiler developers and the broader software community.
- 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.