Microsoft first released C++ AMP last September, as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, after announcing its intentions to open the specification for outside use in June.

The Palo Alto giant's browser will be ditching Microsoft's native C++ compiler in favour of Clang in order to maintain parity with other platforms like macOS and Linux, where Clang is already used.

Microsoft Project Manager Orville McDonald showed a quick demonstration during the Visual Studio launch of two different versions of Microsoft's FreshPaint app running on Microsoft Surface tablets ...

Microsoft has also worked to ensure that both the Windows headers and the C++ libraries work with Clang as well as its own compiler. Google has not yet moved entirely to the LLVM toolchain.

Starting with Clang 10.0 and Rust 1.47 (the current Nightly build), the two compilers can now also compile C/C++ projects into Windows apps that tap into the CFG feature to safeguard control flows ...

These files, stored as CPP files, compile through the Visual C++ compiler. Compile your files by downloading the free express compiler from Microsoft in order to run compilation commands from the ...

Microsoft with its Roslyn .Net compiler project is getting ready to upgrade its C# and Visual Basic languages. Tough decisions have been made about the feature sets of the two languages, said Mads ...

Microsoft first released C++ AMP last September, as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, after announcing its intentions to open the specification for outside use in June.

As reported by Ars Technica, the company has switched Chrome's Windows compiler from Microsoft's Visual Studio C++ compiler to Clang, an open-source alternative.

Microsoft first released C++ AMP last September, as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, after announcing its intentions to open the specification for outside use in June.