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		br1 on Feb 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JetBrains C++ IDE: Status update and Video report Visual C++ uses EDG only for the IDE. The compiler still has it's own frontend.

DannyBee on Feb 10, 2014 [–]

Please tell me they did not put Phoenix out in the wild :)

pjmlp on Feb 10, 2014 | [–]

No, but they are rewriting the frontend to be AST based as well.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/C9-GoingNative/GoingNative-21...

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