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Microsoft Previews Compiler-as-a-Service Software

Posted by samzenpus on from the but-this-please dept.

angry tapir writes "Microsoft will release a Community Technology Preview of a new type of compiler its researchers have been building — code-named Project Roslyn — a company executive announced Thursday. Roslyn is a compiler for C# and Visual Basic with a set of APIs that developers can use to fine-tune their code. It resembles a model developed by the Mono Project, in which the information the compiler generates about a program can be reused as a library."

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  1. After your personal info... by c0lo · · Score: 0, Redundant
    TFA

    Internally, a compiler generates a lot of information about the program it is building, he explained, although typically the developer doesn't have access to that data.

    Roslyn can offer access to this data, Hejlsberg said. The data can then be used by Visual Studio to generate more options for programmers

    Hmm... am I getting it right?
    1. personal data on social networks (to be used by markedroids and other spammers)
    2. your daily travel available to your mobile services provider
    3. your documents in the fog of a cloud
    4. and now... your source-code and binaries available to the entity that provides you "compilation services"?

    Oh, dear, where will it stop...
    Thanks but no thanks, I think I'll be sticking with offline compilers, the open-source ones in particular.

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