Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in Visual C++

Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by josefonseca on Thursday May 03, 2012 @10:52PM (#3926797)

There must be a strategical reason behind this, I can't believe they'd make such a huge mistake.

One possibility is that they're trying to corner the native languages so developers start migrating more and more into managed runtimes. This gives Microsoft more power and control over what the programers are doing on their OS. Removing C++ would be too big a hit, so killing off C is the compromise they found.

The fact that they recommend GCC is intriguing though, I can't quite make sense of that.

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Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by pjmlp on Friday May 04, 2012 @03:25AM (#3927448)

While I could agree with you, the fact is that all other compiler vendors, that are also os vendors, are able to support both languages.

So why not Microsoft?

Their only excuse is that Windows developers don't care about C99, according to their surveys.

Yet, this is one of the most requested features in Microsoft Connect.

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