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		X-Istence on Oct 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Sorry State of C++ Portability Microsoft was one of the first to implement a wide variety of C++11 features in their standard library and in their compiler, which made it harder to then port it to Mac OS X/Linux due to the fact that the standard library had not yet yet caught up there. Now the shoe is on the other foot.

snogglethorpe on Oct 26, 2012 [–]

This is simply untrue.

Microsoft's C++ compiler has always been wayyyyy behind in implementing C++11 features.

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