Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
by modeless on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:27PM
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Can you do anything to push Microsoft to implement recent C standards? Their failure to fully implement even C99 in Visual Studio is holding the language back.
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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
by AaronBallman on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:32PM
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Not really -- vendors are free to ignore newer releases of the standard that do not meet their customers needs and the committee can't do much about it.
However, as a user, you can help apply pressure on the vendor to support newer standards. For instance, with Microsoft, you could support this feedback request: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/387315/add-...
Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
by DougGwyn on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:33PM
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There is little that the C Standards group can do about it. One idea is to write a C Standards conformance into contracts. When I was in the government we often did that, but it still wasn't enough clout.
Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C
by DerekL on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:18PM
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My understanding is that Microsoft doesn't want to support C, and the only reason Visual Studio supports C at all is for legacy code. Also, you can use 3rd-party compilers with Visual Studio.
Really, anyone writing C nowadays should ignore Microsoft's compiler, and tell Visual Studio users to install Clang.