Support C99

[quote]C99 is almost 10 years old. Many projects are beginning to rely on C99, and dropping Windows support as a result.[/quote]

[quote]Thanks for taking the time to send us your suggestion. Currently, there are no plans to implement C99 support in VS2010. Once we complete this product cycle, we will be reviewing all customer suggestions, including this one, for our future planning.

Thanks,
Mark Roberts
Visual C++ Team[/quote]

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/485416/support-c99

>>1

If anyone is dropping Windows support because of such a petty restriction, no wonder the company's leader is a moron. There is at least one free alternative which supports C99 (MinGW) and which offers fair support to the whole of the Windows API. Dropping 90% of the desktop market share because of a language choice is utterly ridiculous. On the other hand, Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about old languages such as C anymore. They're simply promoting their crappy proprietary technology, and they're rather wise in this decision.

When it comes to C, people seems to gets stuck at C90 no matter what. Most even recommend C90 over C99 for no apparent better reason than "compiler support". However, when it comes to C++, people goes apeshit with C++11 and "new features", even if most of them aren't properly supported in the compilers yet, and start "porting" their projects to use such features. It's a behavior I can't understand.