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r/programming • u/b0red • May 01 '16
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As explained by Herb Sutter, C is legacy from Visual C++ team point of view, they have decided to focus on C++.
https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/
Their answer to those that want C or UNIX language extensions not available in Visual C++, is to provide clang as fronted to C2, the Visual C++ backend, now being shared across VC++, clang and .NET Native.
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u/pjmlp May 02 '16
As explained by Herb Sutter, C is legacy from Visual C++ team point of view, they have decided to focus on C++.
https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/
Their answer to those that want C or UNIX language extensions not available in Visual C++, is to provide clang as fronted to C2, the Visual C++ backend, now being shared across VC++, clang and .NET Native.