Comment by pjmlp

5 hours ago

Given how C was seen in the past, before there was a change of heart to add C11/C17, minus atomics and aligned memory allocators (still between experimental or not going to happen),

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-atomics-in-visual...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/comp...

And the new guidelines regarding the use of unsafe languages at Microsoft, I wouldn't bet waiting that it will ever happen, even after 2040.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-secur...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/11/19/windo...

Well, with the death of Xbox and release of raddebugger, maybe supporting VS/MSVC just isn't that important anymore. Good riddance.