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Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by sidewndr46 on Monday September 19, 2022 @10:11PM (#32906832)
Really? I don't know much about microsoft's internal architecture after Windows 98. But they maintained a separate compiler for what was basically just kernel modules?
Re:It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ by kevin_thibedeau on Monday September 19, 2022 @10:26PM (#32906949)
It was a command line only tool distributed with the driver dev kit. It had ABI differences with MSVC that required them to keep it around until relatively recently.