Re: [boost] [1.51][Release] Short release cycle

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There's a lot of compilers that Boost still pretends to care about. It would be very unfortunate if we devolve into just targetting the "popular" few.

I think that Boots should support not the "popular" compilers but the modern ones. The users of the old compilers may use the old versions of Boost. The existence of old and unpopular compilers should not prevent the Boost from using the modern language features. Note that these compilers will never disappear.

I'd thought the Boost community had invested a ton of effort specifically so one could write modern code for both old and new compilers. - Rhys