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Re:Does the Boost library meet its original goal? by pjmlp on Monday June 26, 2017 @07:09AM (#14635803)
Microsoft is actually the commercial C++ vendor with the best support for ANSI C++.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

Many people seem to forget there is a world outside clang and gcc.

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Re:Does the Boost library meet its original goal? by nsb1 on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:04AM (#14636054)
Am I reading that chart wrong? From that page it looks to me like MSVC is quite a bit behind gcc and clang when it comes to feature support.
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Re:Does the Boost library meet its original goal? by pjmlp on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:53AM (#14636351)
My point was comparing to other commercial C++ vendors, many of whom are the only option in certain types of projects.
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Re:Does the Boost library meet its original goal? by restalis on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:47AM (#14636307)
"quite a bit behind" ...for C++ 2017?
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