Anyone else getting deja vu? Makes me think of Sun open sourcing Java.
Yeah. I can already imagine an HN headline 4-5 years from now: "Microsoft’s iron grip on C#: Controlling open source by any means necessary".
Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
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Re: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
#232I wonder what the impact of this is for Resharper, Jetbrains .Net refactoring tool, and their Nitra effort?
Re: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
#233Anyone else getting deja vu? Makes me think of Sun open sourcing Java.
Sun open sourcing Java SE was the best thing that happened to the software industry in the last 10 years, at least. I don't care about Sun's motivation for doing it, but OpenJDK is here to say and Oracle cannot take that back, even if they wanted to. That's the power of open-source released under a strong license and the JVM is in fact turning into the new POSIX.
Here's to hoping that Microsoft goes beyond the compiler and open-sources the VM and the whole standard library too - .NET and C# always had great potential, it's a pity that Microsoft saw it as a way to sell Windows. And I hope they realize they have a long way to go before they catch up.
Re: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
#234I hope for a C# and F# plugin to Intellij IDEA! Please add it JetBrains!
Re: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
#235Is the CLR runtime open-source too? Because open sourcing the C# compiler isn't such a big deal without it.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I'd like to see Visual Studio for Linux with support for Java, Scala, Clojure, Haskell and other non-Microsoft technologies. That's my wishlist in this bright new era of Microsoft openness. I don't like Microsoft but Visual Studio is the only IDE I've ever tried that is substantially better than gedit/jedit. The auto-completion (intellisense) is just delightful to use.
Is Visual Studio auto-complete significantly different from IntelliJ or Eclipse? There are many great editors an the continium between gedit and Visual Studio, such as Sublime, hell even vim and emacs have autocomplete plugins.
C# support in IntelliJ would be a dream come true!
(yes, I know about ReSharper - but that's just lipstick on a pig)
Re: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a hipster because I like open source and want more not-open-source things to be open source?
No, you're a hipster because you seem to think nothing is truly open until it's on git.
From http://roslyn.codeplex.com/ :
git clone https://git01.codeplex.com/roslyn
Re: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
#238This means that you can compile .NET code on a non-MS platform (like Linux) but you can only deploy it to ... Azure. Microsoft's endgame is in sight.
How exactly did you get that out of an Apache 2 license? http://roslyn.codeplex.com/license
Re: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
#239Does this mean one can now take this code and build compiler that targets Mac/Linux platforms? How about forking this to build new variants of C#?
Yes and yes. Standard Apache 2 license.
Re: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
#240Yes! I hope somebody will create a VB.NET to C# convertor with this.
I would expect that you could use a decompiler to generate C# from compiled VB.NET code.