Recent comments regarding Microsoft's support for C++

Under the recent posting "C++26 Reflection appreciation post", u/STL made some very interesting statements regarding Microsoft's support for C++.

I wouldn't myself expect to find such comments inside a discussion about Reflection, but alas, this is reddit.

I do appreciate these insights a lot and I am convinced that these comments deserve to be highlighted in a separate posting. This is my second try at doing this. Let's see how this one goes.

u/bizwig asked:

>Does Microsoft still support C++? There was some press reporting implying MS was going to stop further development on non-proprietary development tools and concentrate on C#.

u/STL responded:

>Yes. The compiler (front-end, back-end, static analysis), standard library, and Address Sanitizer are being actively developed by what I believe is still the largest single team of C++ toolset engineers employed by any one company.

(emphasis mine)

u/STL gave a number of other interesting insights into the state of affairs re C++ at Microsoft. I recommend to read his comments at the posting linked at the top.

Please note that u/STL is not making statements on behalf of Microsoft (as I understand it), but he is a highly respected member of r/cpp, a moderator of this subreddit and the implementer of the MSVC C++ Standard Library.

I'm not related to Microsoft in any way (other than being a user of their products and their C++ toolchain) and I'm not interested in collecting reddit karma (as someone suspected at my last try).

Thank you for not reporting this posting as SPAM (it clearly isn't).

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