On 8/14/2011 2:49 AM, Joel falcou wrote:
On 14/08/11 00:31, Edward Diener wrote:
The problem is simply that very few compilers really support the vast majority of C++11 features at this moment. So while it should certainly be a goal to support C++11 any library which is based on it will find very few compilers for awhile.
10 years ago, C++03 was not that supported by many compilers. Boost effort to push the boundaries forced the compiler vendor to adapt adn support more stuff. I think Boost can do the same with C++11: forcing vendors to actually care. I really don't want C++11 go the C99 way because nobody used it. It's a vicious circle : you don't use C++11 cause vendor don't support much so vendor don't add more support cause nobody use it.
I agree with you but any Boost library still has to support C++03 for a good while until compiler vendors catch up with the C++11 standard.