Comment by acqq
11 years ago
Note that the C# compiler being open-sourced now is not the one used in Visual Studio. The open sourced one is called currently the "Roslyn C# compiler."
See Locke1689's comments here, especially:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524722
"the native C# compiler (that's what we call the old C# compiler that everyone's using in VS right now)"
That's true, they open sourced the new-hotness compiler that they're moving to. The Roslyn compiler is still in preview, hence it hasn't had time to make it into Visual Studio. But I believe it'll be in the next version.
Really, this seems better than opening up the old compiler that they're moving away from.
Yeah, agreed - I heard a Roslyn dev saying exactly that in a podcast a couple of months back ... http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=935