[wyldfire]

Well, it's not necessarily negative, but the scope of the feature delivered is much smaller if what the team says they've done is integrated ssh/scp/gdb into VC++.

When I read the headline after having read the bit about native linux binaries, I thought "wowsers MS went full linux support!" Still, it's an excellent achievement and it seems clear that they wanted to announce this at the same time. They right-sized the scope of the VC++ work to match what could be accomplished in the time allowed.

I would be thrilled if Microsoft's next move would be to transition to an LLVM/clang based engine underneath VC++. IMO their distinguishing feature for VC++ is not the compiler engine. This would be the kind of lean maneuver that they're trying to steer towards these days.

[robotdad]

Sorry, never meant to mislead that VS was on Linux.

Is this the sort of thing you are looking for with respect to clang? https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/20/clang-wit...

We don't have clang support for Linux yet, something we are looking at. Lots to do. :)