<story><title>Visual Studio 2013</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/06/03/visual-studio-2013.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>I wish they would dedicate more time to improving cl.exe and link.exe in terms of performance and language support and less time with these hokey team visualization gimics.&lt;p&gt;Every release since 2008 has been getting slower and slower for C++, the C compiler is awful, PGO instrumentation in Win8 is less capable, and there&apos;s no equivalents in the Windows ecosystem to gcc&apos;s likely/unlikely, oprofile, or valgrind.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s at the point now where developing on Windows vs Linux is a serious performance and security impediment due to their withering native toolchain.  But I guess nobody over there gets promoted for fixing the hard stuff.</text></comment>
<story><title>Visual Studio 2013</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/06/03/visual-studio-2013.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GravityWell</author><text>No mention at all about missing C++11 features. I hope their continued silence is not an indicator of nothing to come.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://cpprocks.com/c11-compiler-support-shootout-visual-studio-gcc-clang-intel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cpprocks.com/c11-compiler-support-shootout-visual-stu...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that features listed as included in the VS2012 Nov CTP, such as initializer lists, variadic templates, etc., should not in my view be listed. The CTP does not work via the Visual Studio interface, but only from the command line compiler. And the CTP is not included in either Update 1 or Update 2.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile GCC and Clang are both feature complete:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;#38;px=MTM1NTg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;#38;px=MTM1N...&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/GCC-4-8-1-is-C-11-feature-complete-1875093.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/GCC-4-8-1-is-C-11-fea...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>