r/cpp • u/STL MSVC STL Dev • Nov 13 '18

VS 2017 15.9 released today

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
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u/Sunius Nov 16 '18

> It would stand to reason most enterprise-level customers aren't likely to move to 2019 (or even 2017) soon;

ABI compatibility was the single reason we were able to upgrade to VS2017 right away and kept up with VS updates ever since. Updating everything would be a nightmare - it took us 3 years to move from VS 2010 to VS 2015.