Edison Design Group

Edison Design Group has made its long-proprietary EDG C++ front-end publicly available, ending decades in which the compiler technology was licensed only to commercial customers. The EDG front-end has long been used inside major compilers and tool vendors, so opening it up is drawing attention from compiler developers and tooling engineers discussing what broader access could mean for C++ tooling and language experimentation.

Edison Design Group has released the source code of its widely used C/C++ compiler frontend, long kept proprietary and licensed to major compiler vendors. The C++ Alliance is taking over further development of the code, making one of the industry's most respected parser implementations available to the broader community for the first time.

Edison Design Group, the long-standing independent compiler front-end vendor, has announced that its C++ front-end is going public, with details posted on a new site describing the transition. The EDG front-end has been licensed for decades by major compiler and tooling vendors but was never directly available to the wider community. Developers are discussing what the change could mean for C++ tooling and open-source compilers.