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Re:Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library by m463 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:46AM (#22889289)
It seems like a pretty mature cross-platform library.

It could be their statement "folly requires gcc 5.1+" meant gcc 5.1 or greater, where clang might be greater?

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Re:Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library by msla on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:37PM (#22891692)
> It could be their statement "folly requires gcc 5.1+" meant gcc 5.1 or greater, where clang might be greater?

Reminds me of an old joke: "The package said it required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux."

They'd save a lot of guessing by putting in which Special Modern Features their code relies on.

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Re:Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library by jesboat on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:33PM (#22909380)
> They'd save a lot of guessing by putting in which Special Modern Features their code relies on.

The first paragraph of the readme starts with "Folly (acronymed loosely after Facebook Open Source Library) is a library of C++14 components" and gcc 5.1 is the first version (https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx14) which supports all of c++14

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