[jcelerier]

Who has such stupid requirements ? What's the "platform" compiler for something that provides GCC up to 11, like centos ?

[boondaburrah]

Embedded stuff usually, game consoles. Also if you have an Enterprise SKU of Visual Studio it costs real money to upgrade. Maybe your company has purchased a compiler suite you have to use. Maybe you have to link against proprietary libs that were only provided for a certain MSVC ABI.

[jcelerier]

But you originally said: "Yeah the problem isn't nearly as pronounced for rust,"

It does not make sense: the problem is even worse for rust in that case, since you cannot even use it ?

[boondaburrah]

Exactly, that's why one would get excited for C++ support.

However, I realise the point is moot since there would be no way to compile the library. I've been living too long in "Compiles to C" languages this month I guess.