MSVC

Posted Mar 4, 2013 18:12 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: MSVC by Cyberax
Parent article: Michaelsen: One

>Not really. Of all the missing features only inherited constructors really hurt. Other features are "nice to have" or can be implemented using compiler-specific intrinsincs (alignas).

No, what really hurts is MSVC's C99 preprocessor support, or rather, lack thereof. Its lack of other C99 features (eg named initializers) is also quite frustrating, because their use results in far more maintainable code.

It's one thing when you have to write platform-specific hooks to handle OS differences, but it's another thing entirely when you can't use standard language features.