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akdev1l ◴[14 Apr 25 12:50 UTC] No.43680726[source]▶

> Microsoft has unfortunately chosen to neglect C for a long time, its compilers dragging far behind the rest of the pack.

Is this still true? MSVC is pretty good at compiling C++ nowadays

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1. shakna ◴[14 Apr 25 13:30 UTC] No.43681047[source]▶

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For C (not C++), MSVC got C17 in 2020, apart from VLAs - which are never planned. No real roadmap for if/when it will get C23 - which is not just fully implemented in GCC, but the default used standard.

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