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by bsder 2102 days ago
Because Microsoft basically won't support C11.
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They do via clang, long part of Visual Studio installer (since 2015), Visual C++ as C++ compiler naturally not.

And they aren't the only ones, try to see how much of Apple or Google OS applications you manage to write with C11 alone.

They recently added it the roadmap though.
Where is this roadmap?

There is no public plan to add to Visual C++ anything more than what ISO C++ requires in terms of C source code and libraries compatibility.

Microsoft has contributed to clang on Windows for those that still want to use C.