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Visual C++ uses EDG only for the IDE. The compiler still has it's own frontend.

Please tell me they did not put Phoenix out in the wild :)

No, but they are rewriting the frontend to be AST based as well.

I don't have a lot of experience with it. I've used Cilk Plus a few times.

> Are you aware of any significant compilers that use anything other than these as frontends at this point?

Not sure what the embedded and console guys have as frontends.

Mostly GCC based, some now clang based, the rest MS.