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    Checked C - an extension of C that adds bounds checking to C c github.com
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    stig avatar stig 6 years ago | link

    This is not your parents' MicroSoft.

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      calvin avatar calvin 6 years ago | link

      Microsoft Research has done these kinds of things for years, though using a competitor’s C++ compiler instead of MSVC is strange.

      I think what’s happened to Microsoft is cultural infiltration from the GNU/Linux world and Unix in general. The new devs weren’t raised on Visual Studio, but on vi and gcc.

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        kyrias avatar kyrias 6 years ago | link

        Microsoft Research has done these kinds of things for years, though using a competitor’s C++ compiler instead of MSVC is strange.

        Well, it’s C, not C++, and the MSVC compiler is officially not a C compiler, it just happens to accept a subset of C.

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          stig avatar stig 6 years ago | link

          I was actually referring to doing development in the open, rather than behind closed doors, but yes–it not being based on Visual Studio also struck me as weird.

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            friendlysock avatar friendlysock 6 years ago | link

            The new devs weren’t raised on Visual Studio, but on vi and gcc.

            Those poor, abused developers. :(

            It’s like Tiny Tim begging for an IDE.