dmd and C++11

[Sean Cavanaugh]

On 12/29/2011 10:16 AM, Trass3r wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 December 2011 at 16:00:47 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Thursday, 29 December 2011 at 15:58:55 UTC, Trass3r wrote:
>>> What's the stance on using C++11 features in the dmd source code in
>>> the future?
>>
>> Well, how many C++11 features does DMC support?
>
> *sigh*
> Totally forgot about that. Can't we finally get rid of that crappy
> toolchain :'(
> btw, wasn't there a patch to make dmd compile with VisualStudio cl?

Visual Studio support of C++11 is pretty weak (or maybe more accurately 
'spotty') in VS2010, and this will be virtually unchanged in the next 
version.  On the plus side what is there (rvalue references, auto) is 
nice to have.  On the downside what is missing is really sad (varaidic 
templates, range for, the full set of C++11 type traits, the new unicode 
string types and literals, initializer lists, and a few others I can't 
remember easily)