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by tbe 5370 days ago
The reason why Apple and their ilk use an old version of GCC, is that newer versions are licensed under GPLv3 which does not work for them.

For the same reason they are switching to LLVM. So if Clang supports C++11 well enough, Apple switches to that, and others who wont use newer GCC versions do the same, many companies may be back on track regarding compiler compatibility.