05-27-2014, 09:09 AM
L0c3l: it's nothing to do with pushing for newer version without a reason. Microsoft is very slow in implementing the new C++ standard (C++11). Even VS2013 doesn't have it fully implemented. GCC and and Clang (commonly used compilers on Linux and OSX) had these standards working almost completely in 2011 and having to use a very old and outdated standard just to support an already obsolete service pack (why wouldn't you update to the newest?) seems like a ridiculous thing to do for a hobby project.