Re: [ANN] llua Higher-level C API for Lua

[Craig Barnes <craigbarnes85@...>]

On 11 March 2014 09:18, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> the big obstacle to universal C99 is
> lack of Microsoft support - they do a C++ compiler, can't see the
> point in C support anymore.

It seems like their thoughts on C99 have evolved a bit over the last few years:

  *  http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and-c99/  (2012)
  *  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/28/cpp-conformance-roadmap.aspx
 (2013)

I don't think it's fair to conclude that they "can't see the point"
after reading this. It's probably more a
short sighted "strategy" that the compiler team don't get much say in.