> In terms of C++ version, it was proposed to target C++11. GCC 5 has full C++14 support (one library functionality missing), and so does VS2015 onwards as well as Clang 3.4, see https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support
I doubt that any older compilers are in use _anywhere_ in reasonable numbers that this should constrain the development of CPython. While I don't know who proposed C++11 or where, I'd therefore like to propose to move to _at least_ C++14. Note that https://github.com/python/peps/pull/2309 already bumped the required C-standard to C11, and originally defined this as > The C11 subset are features supported by GCC 8.5, > clang 8.0, and MSVC of Visual Studio 2017. If those versions should be regarded as the lower bounds of compiler support (are they - or anything lower - tested on the build bots...?), then C++17 core language support would automatically fall out of this (there are some stragglers for full stdlib support, especially in clang; but that is usually not an issue). Best H. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/AGUI6B6W55TUXL6SA7KQQGPYYSRJNCFH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
