<story><title>How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microsoft-rewrote-its-c-compiler-in-c-and-made-it-open-source-4ebed5646f98</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nudpiedo</author><text>I find amusing how microsoft moved from the closed source referent in the industry into such an open source player. Right now even allows to hook some of their tools and platforms to its competing platforms and tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m0xte</author><text>Their intent is still entirely market share. We need to be vigilant on how they get there. History has taught us a lot of lessons we seem to have forgotten because shiny and new layer of marketing. There is still a massive cultural and technical impedance mismatch.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microsoft-rewrote-its-c-compiler-in-c-and-made-it-open-source-4ebed5646f98</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nudpiedo</author><text>I find amusing how microsoft moved from the closed source referent in the industry into such an open source player. Right now even allows to hook some of their tools and platforms to its competing platforms and tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexlesuper</author><text>I think they are really repositioning the company as powering general computing through their cloud platform as opposed to powering general computing through their OS.</text></comment>