Microsoft to contribute to Clang and LLVM project

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 02:22:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 01:09:30 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> [...]
>
> But the real question is whether it is a strategic good move?
>
> Go is the only language now that use its own backend and they 
> loose performance over it, and get bad comments for it, but 
> they get to tailor it to a reasonable GC so it has some 
> strategic value.
>
> Rust recently announced that Mozilla is going to include Rust 
> code in their products in 2016. So they are committed.
>
> The science people seem to rally behind Julia JIT, and a JIT 
> and mindshare is important in that field.
>
> With Swift on Linux the ARC approach becomes less attractive 
> for other languages as you put yourself up for direct 
> comparison. If Swift can get reasonable performance on Linux 
> and Android then they will take a fair marketshare real fast 
> because of tooling and portability, both on mobile and even on 
> web servers.
>
> In this crowded "close to production ready" landscape 
> competition becomes more fierce. I think languages like Swift 
> going cross platform will create trouble for languages like Nim 
> and D.

Just as a side effect of that, see the list of supported 
languages in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 for editing and basic 
intelisense.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/11/30/visual-studio-update-1-rtm.aspx