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

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den sön 22 jan. 2023 kl 23:08 skrev Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
>
> > MSVC not-the-latest: are you using it? why?
>
> Yes, using VS 2019.
>
> I can only speak for us, but we simply haven't had any really
> compelling reason to upgrade our compiler.
>
> Turning the question around: If you have no need for the
> features/improvements that a newer compiler would bring, why would you
> upgrade it? It's a non-zero amount of work to switch.
>
> In many places, if you can't make a (somewhat) direct connection to
> something revenue-generating, such as a client case, it's not going to
> get done unless there's unexpected extra time available.
>
> That said, we would have no problem with Qt dropping support for VS
> 2019. We are using a somewhat old 5.12 version of Qt anyway, mostly
> for same reason as we are not using latest compiler.
>
> So perhaps better wait for someone that is staying on top of the
> latest Qt to give their view. I can imagine that there that do that to

*that there are those that do that

> get improvements/bug fixes, but which rarely update their compiler.
> It's quite rare to be affected by a compiler bug after all.
>
> Elvis
>
> Den sön 22 jan. 2023 kl 17:19 skrev Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> >
> > 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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