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Wow, they go so far as to recommend gcc if you want "new" features. ~"We won't support those features, if you want them go use a more full featured product".
by mindstab 14y ago
Wow, they go so far as to recommend gcc if you want "new" features. ~"We won't support those features, if you want them go use a more full featured product". Kind of makes it hard to keep peddling their product in the long term if they plan to lag behind no?
- eru 14y agoDepends. From the article it seems they position their product as a C++ compiler. You don't expect your Haskell compiler to also do OCaml.
- fusiongyro 14y agoNo, but I do expect my OCaml compiler to also do Caml.
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- bonch 14y agoC++ isn't just an extension to C in the way OCaml extends Caml. C++ is a different language, with some retained source compatibility for convenience.
- mikeash 14y agoNo, but I do expect Microsoft to provide a C compiler of some kind that's remotely up to date.
- ArbitraryLimits 14y agoMicrosoft has never seen Visual Studio as a profit center. It's just there because compilers are complements of applications that run on their system, which is a profit center. The only reason they even used to charge for it was to not kill Borland's compiler business. As long as there's a C compiler for applications on their operating system, they're happy. If someone else writes it, so much the better.
- bonch 14y agoThey're not peddling their product as a C compiler.