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Re:In Defense of C++ by flukus on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:27PM (#13587012)
Doesn't VS only support a really old version of c++?
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Re:In Defense of C++ by pzone on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @06:04PM (#13593829)
No, they keep up pretty well with the C++ spec. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/22/vs-2015-u...

You may be thinking of the lack of full C99 support.

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Re:In Defense of C++ by pjmlp on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:59AM (#13589039)
People tend to compare it against gcc and clang, but it is actually the best C++ support among commercial compilers.
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Re:In Defense of C++ by sandeatr on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @02:23AM (#13587755)
It is fairly up to date actually
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