<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>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></item><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>oconnor0</author><text>It is interesting to me that I read people criticizing Microsoft for their open sourcing code as doing it for marketing reasons---which seems accurate---but not criticizing Google or Apple or whoever else when they open source code.</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>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></item><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>kqr</author><text>I agree. A lot of what they are doing now looks like EEE when you peel back a couple of layers.&lt;p&gt;I say this as someone who happily uses a lot of the stuff they produce in the process. I really, really, intensely hope I&amp;#x27;m wrong and my fears aren&amp;#x27;t realised.</text></comment>