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Re:Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol by DagAgren on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:14AM (#22264924)
VS now ships clang, so that should improve support for C considerably.

Objective-C is C, with extensions. Swift interoperates with C, not C++.

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Re:Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol by pjmlp on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:28AM (#22264998)
It ships clang, because that is Microsoft's answer to C support on Windows, for those that still want to use C.

Visual C++ focus is naturally C++.

C with extensions, by definition, is not C, rather something else.

Swift interoperates with Objective-C, thus C interoperability comes for free.

IO Kit, DriverKit, Metal Shaders, LLVM make all use of C++.

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