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Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language

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218 points signa11 | 1 comments | 14 Apr 25 10:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.263s | source
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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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chaosite ◴[14 Apr 25 13:00 UTC] No.43680811[source]▶
MSVC always focused on C++, and C was treated as an afterthought.
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1. pjmlp ◴[16 Apr 25 11:07 UTC] No.43703860[source]▶
The irony is that Microsoft was the very last MS-DOS compiler vendor to support C++ in their C tooling with Microsoft C/C++ 7 in 1992, that changed with the release of Visual C++ in 1993.