Edison Design Group

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.

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.