News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against NSO. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against... by Shared404 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @01:45PM (#25509670)
> C++ is currently the only true "portable" language out there,

I thought that was C? Or am I misunderstanding, and you're using C++ because it's more advanced and can still be used anywhere C can?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against... by a1369209993 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @01:58PM (#25509793)
Microsoft is somewhat notorious for not correctly supporting C in Visual Studio. There's MinGW, which basically works, but it arguably doesn't count as 'native' support.

I've heard people claim that recent versions of VS are better, but I've also heard people claim that they just corrupted the standards process to get everything they didn't support relegated to optional extensions, so... [shrug].

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against... by asddubs on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:36PM (#25510195)
you can also use clang these days without MinGW AFAIK
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft and Google join Facebook’s legal battle against... by sn_master on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:17PM (#25509988)
Yes, you're right, C is more accurate, tho C has been getting more and more C++ features over time.
[ Parent | on HN ]