I don't understand your claim that this is a python specific issue. There are C++ libraries that require C++11. As a result if you have an older compiler that

I don't understand your claim that this is a python specific issue. There are C++ libraries that require C++11. As a result if you have an older compiler that does not support C++11 it will just not compile. Same if you try to compile with C++11 compiler a super old project with old libraries. More likely than not it will break. The fact that other languages ignore the problem, it does not make the problem go away. At least python is pragmatist and comes with virtual environments instead of requiring me to set up containers or VMs to deal with package compatibility.