Re: The Sorry State of C++ Portability by Jeff Wofford

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Bo Persson <bop@gmb.dk>

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Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:36:23 +0100

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Jorgen Grahn skrev 2012-11-01 22:50:

On Thu, 2012-11-01, Rui Maciel wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

The Sorry State of C++ Portability by Jeff Wofford:
http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=1102

The title doesn't fit the article, which is only about how MS Visual Studio
fails to support C++11. And by now MS VS lagging behind, or MS dragging its
feet, shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

It surprised /me/, but maybe that's because I don't pay much attention
to what MS does. I was under the impression that they were "on the
bus" this time.

(Perhaps we've forgotten how old-fashioned long release cycles work,
now that we can have a new browser, Linux kernel, gcc, etc once a
week?)

/Jorgen

I think they just made a terrible mistake in their priority, similar to
what they did 10 years ago, when VC++ 2002 with managed extensions flopped.

The reports say that MS started to implement key C++11 features like
variadic templates, but never finished because of lack of resources.

"Fortunately" they just had enough time to implement support for Windows
8, Windows RT, and the entirely new (and totally unasked for) C++/CX.

Bo Persson