c++11 features

[bbguimaraes]

I just found this very useful presentation on the new features in c++11. Sadly, I'm very far from using c++ on anything lately (work + dissertation =), so I thought I'd ask you guys: are you using these features? If you're not, I'd be interested in knowing why (compiler support, backward compatibility, etc).

[short]

My previous internship I spent a month so I could update the compiler from gcc3 to the latest gcc (and clang) release so we could start experimenting with new c++11 features. Let me just say it, worth it! The code is much more succinct, and much better at expressing the programmer's intent.

That said my new job is using c++98 and I'm making it a personal goal to update as soon as possible. That said I expect it to take a while before I understand the ecosystem well enough to begin doing this.

I'd be curious to see if the dreamcast could be compiled with gcc's newest release.

[Falco Girgis]

The main reason why I haven't experimented with it yet is that I just haven't gotten a chance to update my compilers and toolchains.

I'd be curious to see if the dreamcast could be compiled with gcc's newest release.

I have never actually built GCC by myself, but I have heard we can use up to GCC 4.7 on the DC currently... and after a little poking around, it looks like this has most of C++11.

I would very much like to start dabbling, though.

[Nokurn]

The main reason why I haven't experimented with it yet is that I just haven't gotten a chance to update my compilers and toolchains.

I'd be curious to see if the dreamcast could be compiled with gcc's newest release.

I have never actually built GCC by myself, but I have heard we can use up to GCC 4.7 on the DC currently... and after a little poking around, it looks like this has most of C++11.

I would very much like to start dabbling, though.

GCC 4.7 has virtually all of the features even a proficient programmer would use from C++11, aside from the new concurrency stuff. GCC 4.8.1 is feature-complete. You also need a newer version of libstdc++ to get the revisions to STL, which are quite nice.