A lot of the C99 features like array initialization got sucked into C++11, and s...

cygx · on Feb 23, 2012

If only that were true - however, some of the more interesting C99 and C11 features aren't part of C++11 as there are already C++ specific alternatives.

Also, MS doesn't really have a good track record of backporting C++ features to C (mixing code and declarations, anyone?).

If you want to write portable C code that works on at least *nix and Windows, either ignore MSVC (GCC works just fine on Windows via MinGW or Cygwin cross-compiler, as does Clang once you get it set up), or restrict yourself to the common subset of C99 and C++98...

repsilat · on Feb 23, 2012

One thing I'm pretty jealous of is "Designated initialization" in C99:

    int whitespace[256]
        = { [' '] = 1, ['\t'] = 1, ['\h'] = 1,
            ['\f'] = 1, ['\n'] = 1, ['\r'] = 1 };

Very cool.