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hendzen on Feb 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Some notes on Rust

The issue holding most serious projects back is MSVC's historic lack of support for C++11 (and now 14/17) features. Thankfully, it looks like this is starting to change with MSVC 15 [0].

As an anecdote, the (very large) project I work on at $DAYJOB is finally moving from C++03 to C++11 in the next few weeks.

[0] - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/11/17/c-11-14-17...

pjmlp on Feb 1, 2015 | [–]

There are more platforms out there than Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and Windows.

Many embedded platforms for example.

There are also enterprise customers that only allow for projects using the installed compilers, usually from the OS vendors.

zerr on Feb 1, 2015 | [–]

May I ask you where do you work?

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