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One huge advantage of C++ is Visual Studio. Once Rust gets something similar I might switch for my personal projects.

• gcp 10y ago
  There's a Rust plugin for it. I don't use it though, I use Visual Studio Code as regular Visual Studio won't work on Mac or Linux. It also depends a bit on why you like Visual Studio. Because it has one of the best Intellisense implementations? Much more common outside Visual Studio for languages that are not C++... Good visual debugger? etc...
• enturn 10y ago
  There is basic support for syntax highlighting out of the box in Visual Studio and more using a plugin. https://areweideyet.com/ https://areweideyet.com/
• Koshkin 10y ago
  > Visual Studio I am not so sure about that. C++ support in VS is rather terrible - especially when compared with support of C#. For C#, VS is excellent.
  • sandeatr 10y ago
    Nobody uses straight VS C++, they use pluggins such as Visual Assist.
    • gcp 10y ago
      In MSVC6 days yes. But in 2015 or later? The built in stuff has gotten really good.
    • pjmlp 10y ago
      Only when they have nice employers that pay for such plugins.
• flukus 10y ago
  Doesn't VS only support a really old version of c++?
  • sandeatr 10y ago
    It is fairly up to date actually
  • pjmlp 10y ago
    People tend to compare it against gcc and clang, but it is actually the best C++ support among commercial compilers.
  • pzone 10y ago
    No, they keep up pretty well with the C++ spec. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/22/vs-2015-update-2s-stl-is-c17-so-far-feature-complete/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/22/vs-2015-u... You may be thinking of the lack of full C99 support.