[Interest] MSVC not-the-latest: are you using it? why?

[coroberti]

Hi Thiago,
On some update of MSVC-2017 to their next minor release, we got their
optimization bug.
It was a waste of time to understand what happened and to work-around it.

jm2c

Kind regards,
Robert

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 6:19 PM Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>
> In this case, MSVC 2019, which is still supported.
>
> I'm trying to understand why people don't upgrade their Visual Studios. In the
> past, they used to use different and binary-incompatible VC runtimes, so large
> projects often needed to stick to a single version because of different teams
> needing to otherwise have a flag day.
>
> But that hasn't been the case since MSVC 2015. So, are you still sticking to
> older MSVC releases years after there's a new one? Why?
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
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