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

[Tony Rietwyk]

Hi Thiago,

The team I'm working with have been keeping up with the latest VS 
version - mainly for the security fixes and new C++11/17/20 features 
available in Qt 5.15.  But VS2022 introduced changes to the enum 
handling last year, which has made Intellisense useless for them - 
especially class enum's.  Made worse since we had previously changed 
many of our enum's to class ones.  :O(

I doubt that would stop anyone upgrading, but maybe there are other 
non-compiler reasons for staying with older versions of dev environments.

Regards,

Tony

On 23/01/2023 3:18 am, Thiago Macieira 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?
>
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