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by solutionyogi 5350 days ago
Roslyn will be good. It has to be because from what I understand, the MS team themselves will use Roslyn in Visual Studio and other products. Roslyn isn't just a public API for others to analyze code. It will be the foundation on which .NET framework languages will depend upon.

See Eric Lippert (Member of the Roslyn team, C# Principal) notes here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/10/19/the-r...
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SeveredCross 5350 days ago
Well…I think Roslyn will be good, but I think it's reaching to say it must be because the MS team themselves will use it.

After all, these are the same people who invented (and used!) MFC, long known as the Microsoft Frustration Classes.

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xpaulbettsx 5350 days ago
1992 called and wants its Microsoft stereotype back.
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SeveredCross 5350 days ago
It was a joke, lighten up. For what it's worth, I'm a .NET developer and think it's awesome.
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solutionyogi 5350 days ago
Well, MFC was actually a library. And I know it was a poor library. But this is a different ball game.

With Roslyn, they are going to write C# compiler in C# itself (and VB compiler in VB). And if they expose this as an API, it's guaranteed that I will be able to parse every valid C# file.

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