Well, it's not necessarily negative, but the scope of the feature delivered is much smaller if what the team says they've done is integrated ssh/scp/gdb into VC++.

When I read the headline after having read the bit about native linux binaries, I thought "wowsers MS went full linux support!" Still, it's an excellent achievement and it seems clear that they wanted to announce this at the same time. They right-sized the scope of the VC++ work to match what could be accomplished in the time allowed.

I would be thrilled if Microsoft's next move would be to transition to an LLVM/clang based engine underneath VC++. IMO their distinguishing feature for VC++ is not the compiler engine. This would be the kind of lean maneuver that they're trying to steer towards these days.

Sorry, never meant to mislead that VS was on Linux.

Is this the sort of thing you are looking for with respect to clang? https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/20/clang-wit...

We don't have clang support for Linux yet, something we are looking at. Lots to do. :)