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Re:The problem with C by colejohnson66 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @06:46PM (#24369710)
They probably haven’t yet because of backwards compatibility. I’m certain there’s plenty of companies that take advantage of the quirks unique to MSVC++ and would be quite upset if it was just replaced with GCC or LLVM.
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Re:The problem with C by qalmakka on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:42AM (#24440808)
This, exactly. MSVC is full of extensions so heinous and horrible to make you scream when you sleep at night. They probably pledged to support those until the end of time, so I guess they would have to keep CL around forever.

Also, if you manage to overcome how horrible their CLI tools are, Microsoft's CL is a nice C++ compiler. Their STL support is great nowadays and lots of things just work; I even had seen times where they were _stricter_ about standards than Clang/GCC, which honestly shocked me.

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