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• I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up

  VB.NET is open source, supports AOT, and there is little else that VB 6 does better, other than COM integration, which .NET was always a bit lower level https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn Now I bet what you mean is the graphical part, and yes that is only partial open source. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• High-performance backend scripting for .NET

  The script compiler uses Roslyn to generate a .NET assembly for each script. The assembly's binary data and the script's hash value are stored in the database with the script object. The hash code is used for assembly caching. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution

  Yes it is. You can fork the roslyn compiler and toolchain here: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn It's even an mit license one of the most permissive. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• The search for easier safe systems programming

  C# and VB compiler suite, MIT license: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn You were saying? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• The search for easier safe systems programming

  The C# compiler has an MIT license and is available on GitHub, which is about as FOSS as it gets. https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Generating C# code programmatically

  Recently, while creating some experimental C# source code generators (xafero/csharp-generators), I was just concatenating strings together. Like you do, you know, if things have to go very quickly. If you have a simple use case, use a formatted multi-line string or some template library like scriban. But I searched for a way to generate more and more complicated logic easily - like for example, adding raw SQL... - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Use Case Driven Development with Low-Code

  At runtime, the Case C# expressions are embedded into a function and dynamically compiled into an assembly using the Roslyn C# compiler. Then the function that contains the expression is called (e.g. CaseAvailableFunction.Availablle()). At runtime, the function provides various methods to access stored case values as well as the current input data. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

• How do IDEs add language support / detect the language you are using?

  It's no surprise that IDEs can do the same thing, and they may even share the same codebase for doing so. For instance, C#'s Roslyn compiler states:. Source: about 3 years ago

• Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead

  Way back in 2014, Microsoft said it [VB.NET] would go open source, but all that emerged is the rather less interesting Roslyn. Source: about 3 years ago

• Problem with a lesson about nullable types

  I downloaded the Roslyn compiler, but it seems that nothing changed, I still get the same error. Source: over 3 years ago

• Apple won't allow custom scripts to be compiled at runtime right?

  My game involves downloading custom scripts from our server and compiling those scripts at runtime Rosyln on the app. Source: over 3 years ago

• Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.1

  You should open an issue about this in the Roslyn repo, or follow one about this in case one exists already (do a search first). It's Roslyn that controls how the go to definition works, this is not something that we (I mean from the MVVM Toolkit) have control over. It's certainly an interesting point and I did see this being raised a few times alreaady, and I agree that I've also found myself in the same... Source: over 3 years ago

• If Rust started with GCC would Rust still be the same ?

  GCC being GPL was a good idea in a landscape of expensive & mediocre proprietary compilers. It's unclear how valuable it is now that even Microsoft is releasing free open-source compilers for new languages (which would have been unthinkable back in 1998). Source: over 3 years ago

• A Team at Microsoft is Helping Make Python Faster

  What area of .net? If you mean the c# compiler, yeah, it's changed. https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn. Source: over 3 years ago

• Using Roslyn Analyzers for static code analysis

  Roslyn is the name of the C# (and VB) compiler, which is developed primarily by Microsoft as an open source project. The platform has been the default C# compiler since Visual Studio 2015 and is actually written in C# itself — in contrast to the first generation of C# compiler which was written in C++. - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago

• Why is Microsoft's C# not taught in most universities and Java is instead?

  No, talking about C#, the language and it's accompanying runtime and class libraries, is completely open source now. The compiler Roslyn, (https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn) is open source and the language specification is now community driven (https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang). Source: over 3 years ago

• Is .NET open? MS pushing a proprietary extension to replace OmniSharp

  Ah come on! It's more complicated than that. Most of the heavy lifting in OmniSharp is done by Roslyn [0]. Roslyn is the open source C# compiler and code analysis library maintained by MS. You cannot overstate how much effort has gone into Roslyn, and how much money MS has invested to make it work. OmniSharp is essentially a wrapper[1] around Roslyn (before Roslyn it was Mono), and while the OmniSharp team did a... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry

  For me there was a huge divide between those who were supplying Smalltalk and worked that side of the fence, and the customers who were trying to solve problems. I saw that as why Smalltalk lost to simpler/arguably stupider tech like Java. I have sometimes pondered whether to try making a system that kind of rhymed with Smalltalk, but using Roslyn[0] instead. Although I envisage it as being a kind of playground... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Actix Web v4.0 (Rust)

  Clearly nobody ever manages to use this Go thing with over 700: https://github.com/golang/go/issues. Or .net, over 5000 issues for the compiler alone: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn. I'd guess stuff like Java, glibc would be similar if they used github. - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• nix-channel --update just hangs

  There are currently 1.7k issued opened on the Nix's GitHub (for comparison - both https://github.com/rust-lang/rust and https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn have >5k), so tending to them all is just physically impossible - with limited time and resources, one has to choose; and apparently nix-channel --update simply isn't that much of an issue compared to the others. Source: over 4 years ago

• The compiler

  Compilers are their own separate programs. In this case, you'll be compiling your code with Roslyn which comes included in Visual Studio. But you can also swap it out with another C# compiler if you'd like. Source: over 4 years ago