Visual Studio 2015 Preview announced, includes Clang/LLVM support for Android, iOS

This morning, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2015 Preview. It contains continued C++11/14 conformance improvements in the traditional Visual C++ compiler, and also adds direct support for the Clang/LLVM compiler toolchain to build C++ code for Android now and iOS in the near future.

Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Visual C++

by Ankit Asthana

From the announcement:

Modern application customers are demanding applications be available for multiple device platforms (such as Windows, Android and iOS).... C++ is unique as it provides the ability to write efficient, fast and feature rich cross-platform mobile code once which can then be shared across these different device platforms.

Visual Studio 2015 Preview introduces support for developers to be able to build cross-platform mobile native (C/C++) binaries targeting Windows platforms (through the Visual C++ toolchain C1xx/C2) and the Android platform (through Clang/llvm)...

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