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This post shows that C++11 is actually quite a comfortable language. Programming in C++98/03 was often a necessity for me (good for making performant cross-platform software), while I disliked the language quite a lot. The introduction of type inference, closures, range-based for loops, and uniform intialization makes many things that used to be tedious much simpler.

That said, I guess we have to live with C++03 for many more years. E.g. in one application that I co-developed, we use a library that can currently only be compiled without a substantial amount of effort on Visual Studio 2005 or 2008. The DLL compiled with older versions is not compatible with 2010 or 2012. So, we are basically stuck in 2005 or 2008 land for now.



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