Falsehoods C++ Programmers Believe About Standard Version Support

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While being occasionally involved in the C++ package management process with Conan I see beginners and even experts alike being very confused about what does it mean to support a certain standard version in multi-platform libraries.

Here I’ll point out some common misbelieves people have about standard version support.