Now a recently unveiled Roslyn-based compiler project named Peachpie allows PHP to be compiled into portable class libraries and executed in the .Net framework.

It’s unlikely LLILC will eclipse the original, native-Windows .Net compiler — the latter has decades of work behind it — but increasingly Microsoft needs to be a cross-platform entity.

The rest of the Visual C++ .Net and Visual C++ Version 7 compiler is fine from a security standpoint, he said. “That one feature shouldn’t be used,” said McGraw. In a statement, Microsoft ...