You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner

Re:You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner by DoofusOfDeath on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:46PM (#25606167)

C++ has been my main programming language for the last 20+ years. (Dang this makes me feel old.)

For my paid work (at multiple jobs), I've never been allowed to use C++ newer than C++11. At first it was due to incomplete compiler support, and later on it was because various customers were using older versions of RHEL whose standard version of GCC was something like 4.8.

Anyone else experiencing this?

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Re:You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner by jcelerier on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:46PM (#25606887)

the vast majority of C++ dev out there is >= 11 per https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/cpp/ with C++14 / 17 being regularly used by >60% of respondants.

Large libraries such as Qt now require C++17.

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