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Is C# compiler open source?

Is C# compiler open source?

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  • At Build 2014, Microsoft announce that their next generation of compilers codenamed "Roslyn" would be made open source and be available on Github.

    The legacy C# compiler from Microsoft is not open source, although it is freely available through Visual Studio Express or the .NET Framework SDK. However there are freely available, open source, C# compilers out there. Check out Mono