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> Those C89 hardliners have a different point of view. C89 was only a thing because Microsoft somehow decided to drag it's feet and prevented msvc from support
by motorest 2y ago
> Those C89 hardliners have a different point of view.
C89 was only a thing because Microsoft somehow decided to drag it's feet and prevented msvc from supporting anything beyond c89 for a long, long time. Only in 2020 did they manage to finally do something about it.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-and-c17-standard-support-arriving-in-msvc/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-and-c17-standard-...
- pjmlp 2y agoBecause for Microsoft C belonged into the past, it was about time to move into C++. https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/ https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an... They only changed of point of view after Satya, and the whole Microsoft <3 Linux and Microsoft <3 FOSS pivot. And in any case, blaming Microsoft doesn't really work out, as many of those folks don't even care Windows exists, only UNIX/POSIX platforms.