EDG C/C++ Compiler Project
During the 2025 November C++ ISO meeting Edison Design Group announced that they would be winding down and that they will open-source their front end . This is the repo containing said front end along with some other components like C and C++ back ends. There is also a website with more info about the transition and a documentation website . At least as far as my knowledge extends this is one of…
Edison Design Group, during the 2025 November C++ ISO meeting, disclosed their plans to discontinue their C and C++ compiler project and open-source it. The project, which includes a front end and other components, is one of the remaining four C++ front ends, alongside Clang, GCC, and MSVC. Edison Design Group's front end is notably used in Visual Studio's Intellisense, and Intel's compiler previously utilized it before switching to Clang.
The company was the sole front end to implement C++98's export template feature, a decision that influenced the removal of the feature in C++11, though the specific vote passed after the 2009 blog post by Herb Sutter advocating for removal/deprecation.
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