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Minor nitpick: Most C99 features were "already" in a VS2015 update (initialization features like designated init and compound literals, and a standard compliant snprintf()).

The big missing features were VLAs (those will never be implemented) and _Generic (implemented now in VS2019).

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Thanks, I was confusing the VS 2015 update with VS 2017 as the one that got the big pieces like designated initializers and compound literals. I don't think anyone cares about VLAs, but I look forward to being able to rely on _Generic in another 5 years when VS 2019 can be assumed available. :)

VS 2019 supports C11 and C17.

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