[peapicker]

I’m living in a world that has to support a product which has many parts in C++ on Solaris, HP-UX, and OS/400 (in addition to Linux, AIX, and Windows). We can’t drop support yet for the AIX release that only support up to C++ 11 although they have a newer clang based compiler. HP-UX and Solaris native compilers only go to C++14. Those platforms have at least 5 years of enterprise support yet, but no new chipsets mean no extended compiler development. And up-to-date gcc doesn’t build there.

And then IBM’s OS/400 ILEC++ support isn’t even up to C++11.

It is hard to live in Enterprise software land where you support everything for a lot of years, but end up stuck on older third party libraries when they move to new standards to keep parity across your product line’s feature set.

[vamega]

This reminds me of my time at Bloomberg. The C++ support from IBM and Oracle/Sun wasn’t nearly up to date, and without a large customer willing to foot the bill to improve the toolchains IBM and Oracle/Sun weren’t going to do the work.

There was a Linux migration project to move the company to Linux. I haven’t heard anything from people inside, but I’m willing to bet that there are still some stragglers that haven’t moved yet.

[pjmlp]

In a similar vein, here it is mostly .NET Framework, and now we finally moved into Java 11.

With .NET 8 and Java 21 around the corner,....

It feels like living the Python 2 / 3 transition.

The wonderfull enterprise land.