How are you using C++11 today? [closed]

Question

This is a question in two parts, the first is the most important and concerns now:

• Are you following the design and evolution of C++11? What blogs, newsgroups, committee papers, and other resources do you follow?
• Even where you're not using any new features, how have they affected your current choices?
• What new features are you using now, either in production or otherwise?

The second part is a follow-up, concerning the new standard once it is final:

• Do you expect to use it immediately? What are you doing to prepare for C++11, other than as listed for the previous questions?
• Obviously, compiler support must be there, but there's still co-workers, ancillary tools, and other factors to consider. What will most affect your adoption?

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Edit: The original really was too argumentative; however, I'm still interested in the underlying question, so I've tried to clean it up and hopefully make it acceptable. This seems a much better avenue than duplicating—even though some answers responded to the argumentative tone, they still apply to the extent that they addressed the questions, and all answers are community property to be cleaned up as appropriate, too.

Answer 1

Can't guess how many are interested in the new C++0x and I am pretty sure that everyone who knows C++ and uses it is curious and eager for more news about it.

I started using everything new from C++0x as soon as it was implemented from g++. Still for small non portable projects. Why? - People constantly telling me to forget about c++ and switch totally to a scripting language to gain faster code developing and forget about memory management. However, my best experience and knowledge is in c++. I know RAII and use Boost library everyday. Now, the new features make me write much faster then before. Knowing that rvalues are here, pointers(even the smart) disappeared from the code. STL algorithms with lambdas just rock and initilizer lists make me so happy. Auto keyword is furious.

So, my primary reason to use C++0x now is speed of development.

Answer 2

No, because it's not fully implemented on the compilers I use.

When C++0x comes out, and Visual Studio 2010 is fully released, along with a "matching" g++, I will use C++0x when I can. This is likely because I frequently start new projects (I make games).

Although I have an existed code-base, it changes every time I figure out a way to do something better; change isn't an obstacle for me. Taking advantage of C++0x would just be another change.

You'll find different opinions with larger code-bases. Some places prefer code to look uniform, and that means spotty C++0x isn't an option: they'd either have to convert the entire thing to take advantage of C++0x, or not use it.

Other places might encourage the use of C++0x features, and in spare time try to fix up older code to match.

And other places, like me, might immediately want to take advantage of all C++0x has to offer.

The answer is: it depends.

Answer 3

I'm using lots of C++0x, in particular variadic templates and functions, auto and decltype, and rvalue references.

While things can be a little fun, with g++ 4.5 and Visual Studio 10, these features are now fairly stable and work the same on both compilers.

Software projects I am starting now probably won't be released for a year or so, and by then I expect these new compilers to available as standard.