Microsoft Announces An LLVM-Based Compiler For .NET

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft Announces An LLVM-Based Compiler For .NET

Microsoft has today lifted the lid on LLILC, their new LLVM-based compiler for .NET's CoreCLR...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-LLVM-dotNET-LLILC

[Luke_Wolf]

Well that's interesting, I had thought they were going to go with LLVM for their cross platform .NET Native implementation, but that works too. It's going to be very interesting to watch this develop

[ramdzet]

another ROCK news about LLVM. Good to see they choose LLVM to compile .NET things.

[Kemosabe]

Why is MS doing all this?

[gotwig]

cause they will open source windows at some point.

[wizard69]

Shocking

At first I thought this was a late April fools.

[mike4]

cause they will open source windows at some point.

Good April joke however a little late.

Seems this will make MONO obsolete soon? When Ubuntu ships MS C# I might use it.

[BSDude]

Why is MS doing all this?

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

[Luke_Wolf]

Why is MS doing all this?

Because Ballmer is gone and Nadella actually listens to Anders Heijlsberg and Scott Guthrie. Those two are pretty cool guys who want what's best for developers and the technologies they're creating.

[kpedersen]

Sounds good. One day we might finally get an open-source C++/clr compiler though. C# can piss off but .NET is pretty cool for tedious GUI tasks.