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.