> ...C++14 is supported since gcc 5 and this one was released five years ago.
I think it is reasonable to require a compiler from 2015...

I believe Scintilla is using C++17 features, so probably more like 2016-2018 
for GCC, depending on which features Scintilla uses.

> Users who compile Geany themselves and use systems which are older than this, 
> have to stick also with an older version of Geany.

Not necessarily. They can still use the latest greatest Geany, they just have 
to install an extra toolchain/stdlib in addition to the one that their distro 
ships with. It's more effort, but it's not exactly rocket science.

> I would not vote for maintaining a LTS release.

:+1: 

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