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		pritambaral on April 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler For any compiler, platform-dependence of the compiler itself is strictly tied to platform-dependence of outputs. Edit: I confused roslyn with the recently announced AOT compiler.

kyberias on April 3, 2014 [–]

What do you mean the output produced isn't platform-independent? This C# compiler produces assemblies that can be run on e.g. Mono runtime on Linux or on the .NET CLR runtime in Windows.

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