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dbcooper on May 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Pulling Free Development Tools for Windo...

How will this affect applications like Matlab 2012 64bit, which require a compiler (such as in the Win 7 SDK) to be installed to use certain features such as SIMULINK?

http://www.mathworks.com/support/compilers/R2012a/win64.html

Will there even be a compiler they could licence from MS and bundle?

brudgers on May 25, 2012 | [–]

VS Express 2010 will continue to be available.

Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4020222

ruediger on May 25, 2012 | [–]

They could add support for GCC (MinGW) and ship it.

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