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		pjmlp on April 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JetBrains is working on a cross-platform C++ IDE g++ is no standard. ANSI and ISO are. Contrary to many in FOSS think, all C and C++ compiler vendors have language extensions and gcc is not immune to this.

norswap on April 4, 2013 [–]

Nor did I imply it was, but the point is that if you want to do cross-platform development from Windows to Linux, not recognizing those extension is a show stopper.

pjmlp on April 4, 2013 | [–]

Cross-platform development should use only ANSI constructs.

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