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		diverightin63 on Feb 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Bing Code Search for C# So the only way to be committed to a language is to open-source it?

tomp on Feb 17, 2014 [–]

In this day and age, yes. At least if you want it to succeed. MSFT knows this, too - they open-sources TypeScript.

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