On 06/05/2022 09:25, Martijn Otto via Boost-users wrote:
I'm not against breaking compatibility with older c++-versions at all, but given that c++-14 has so few new features compared to c++-11 I do think that it may be better to bump the baseline to c++-17 directly.
Whether we should do that _now_ is another matter. IMNSHO c++17 has been out for long enough that you'd expect most people to now have a
There's been some discussion on the develop list about this: I confess I was in your camp, but it's been (correctly) pointed out to me that C++14 is the std version that actually made many of the C++11 features usable ;) Plus compiler support for gcc and msvc tended to arrive at both C++14 and 11 together in the same release (gcc had pre-C++11 support earlier, but there are enough bugs for it for us to not want to be targeting pre-gcc-5). Both compilers are also c++14 by default at present, I realize that will change shortly, but we're not quite there yet. Thanks, John.