Adam Romanek wrote:
On 22.01.2015 21:45, Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
El 22/01/2015 a las 16:37, Ben Pope escribió:
In my personal opinion, I would say go for it (I've upgraded to C++14 on multiple compilers and platforms); anybody that cannot upgrade to a C++11 compiler should either fight harder, do it anyway and then ask for forgiveness, or change jobs (in that order).
In many industrial environments you need to maintain C++98 code for many years. I'm not saying they should use Boost, but that's also real life. I plan to maintain C++03 for many years in my libraries.
My 2 cents...
I work in one of such companies and old compilers are pain in the ass, but there's just no way to force SoC vendors to provider newer ones. It happens that we need to run our code on a platform with gcc 4.2, thus I don't expect anyone to take the decision to move to C++11 in the next 4-5 years or so.
Maybe people in that position should come together and create a LTS branch. What do you think?