e.g.
Compilers have always lagged behind language specifications, that's also a fact. If Visual Studio 16.10 supports C++20 now, it's an exception to this rule that does not make it less true.
This is a remark that not even wrong. It's a variation of the True Scotsman Fallacy.
First you said it was a half truth, now it's not even wrong.
True/false and right/wrong are two different categories of thought, go back to your Aristotle.
What I stated is simply
factual: the all-natural delay in implementation of new language standards on compilers is obvious and to be expected. As in all endeavours, there is a gulf between theory and practice.
Maybe I am bringing myself down a level or two in just caring to provide evidence of the above, but see for instance
this on C++14 still not yet fully supported by VS2017... in 2017. Quoting from the link:
"Our compiler conformance progress shows the benefits of both the rejuvenation [...] We’ve implemented almost all of the features introduced in the C++11 and C++14 standards. There are always bugs, of course."
And this is one in a million examples, there are new standards of other, less widespread languages that are still purely theoretical, years after these new standards have been released.
In that message I was venting a frustration that I think any programmer can relate to.
How many do you know?
Similarly to the above, you are arguing against the obvious just for the sake of playing the troll, I guess?
In fact you are not even arguing it, you are skirting around the subject.
As I wrote in a previous message (we are going in circles), "
The constant need of knowledge update and of learning new tools is the main reason of burnout in software development.".
I don't think you'd want to debate that. In fact, you didn't the first time I've posted it.
I would not employ such guys.
FYI the reason for the C++20 update was that several industry quants requested it.
I think you are projecting what you think reality is.
Whether you would employ someone or not is immaterial, given the state of your current activities. Kind of reminds me of locals selling spades to gold diggers during the Yukon rush, thinking they knew better.
Luckily I don't need to resort to pop psychology ("true scotman" something, "
projecting" this and that) to make my points but if I were to, I'd say
you are the one projecting here, with your priceless "I am a fussy employer" delusions.