C++ Status at the end of 2014

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This was a good year for C++!

Short summary (language features):

Clang supports C++14
GCC supports C++11 and most of C++14 (Full support in upcoming GCC 5.0)
Intel 15.0 supports C++11 (some features on Linux/OSX only)
Visual Studio tries to catch up with C++11, but it also introduces C++14 features as well… and it become (almost) free!

Other Reports:

2020 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012.

The chart

Last year in my summary for 2013 I had more data to analyze! This time it is a bit simpler, because I can leave C++11 conformance and focus on C++14. The latter standard is only a minor updated, only 12 features are included.

The chart below shows a general overview on the conformance for C++14. Note, that at the moment only language features are counted.

I’ve presented only Visual Studio, GCC, Clang and Intel compilers. To see more data from other compilers (IBM, Oracle, EDG…) look here at cppreference/compilersupport.

The data

* means a RTM or partial support

Visual Studio 2015 is VC 14.0 (not 13.0)

On the chart Visual Studio 2015 has around 58%, but I that includes partial support for two features, this can be a bit unfair.

Notes on the C++ Standard

In February the draft for C++14 was published and in August it was successfully approved. More on cpp14 here at Dr dobbs
Meeting in Urbana that discussed future changes. Link to the meeting minutes from the meeting.
- Trip Report: Fall ISO C++ Meeting, H.Sutter and updates to thie report
- For instance, “next gen range based for loops” was rejected. Funny, that it is actually implemented in VC2015 and Clang! :)
Interesting proposals are coming: see my list of top proposals here.
Trip report: Winter ISO C++ meeting - summary after meeting in Issaquah, WA, USA on February 10-15.

Compiler Notes

Visual Studio

Link to the latest version of cpp standard support
Microsoft opened .NET and made VS 2013 Pro free to use.
Visual studio 2015 preview available
The Great C Runtime (CRT) Refactoring, my summary of this huge improvementf can be found here.

GCC

Current C++1y/C++14 Support in GCC
GCC 4.9 available - see Release Notes
- <regex> should finally work!
GCC 5.0 is expected next year (maybe April?)
Concepts-Lite experimental GCC branch

Clang

Current C++ Support in Clang
LLVM 3.5.0 Released - see Release Notes
Clang can be used as Visual Studio toolchain! See a document here.

Intel compiler

Summary

This was quite a good year for C++! C++11 support is done for most of the compilers - although Visual Studio is, as usually, a little behind. We can also use some of the new features from C++14. The standarization committee and the whole community is very engaged in the process of improving the language. I think for C++17 we’ll see some nice additions to the standard.

Additionally, the long-awaited “Effective Modern C++” from Scott Meyers was finally published! It seems to be quite a good book and well respected by the readers.

What do you think?

What do you think about C++ in 2014?
What was the most important event/news for you?
Are you happy with the progress in the standarization process?

Comments

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