{"id":8995,"date":"2018-09-28T01:16:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2019-02-18T12:33:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:33:34","slug":"aa2pnu8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa2pnu8\/","title":{"rendered":"How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: x-large\">Roslyn<\/span><\/b><span> is the codename-that-stuck for the open-source compiler for C# and Visual Basic.NET. Here\u2019s how it started in the deepest darkness of last decade\u2019s corporate Microsoft, and became an open source, cross-platform, public language engine for all things C# (and VB, which I\u2019ll take as a given for the rest of this piece).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roslyn is the codename-that-stuck for the open-source compiler for C# and Visual Basic.NET. Here\u2019s how it started in the deepest darkness of last decade\u2019s corporate Microsoft, and became an open source, cross-platform, public language engine for all things C# (and VB, which I\u2019ll take as a given for the rest of this piece).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus","category-vs4mac"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Roslyn is the codename-that-stuck for the open-source compiler for C# and Visual Basic.NET. Here\u2019s how it started in the deepest darkness of last decade\u2019s corporate Microsoft, and became an open source, cross-platform, public language engine for all things C# (and VB, which I\u2019ll take as a given for the rest of this piece).<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}