On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 3:06 PM Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote:
> But on Windows and on macOS, the compiler updates are disconnected from > the OS > version. Hence the question: if you can install compiler version Y using > the > same mechanism you installed version X, why won't you? > > Outside of inertia, which is powerful, one consideration may be cost. While there is a free "Community" version of Visual Studio, it places pretty strict limitations on the kind of companies that can use it. A single user perpetual license is about $500 USD and, in my experience, not particularly easy to purchase for a small team. One can purchase a license for themselves through the Microsoft store, but as far as I could tell purchasing a small handful of licenses requires each person to do the purchase themselves (and deal with getting reimbursed) or you must go through a reseller, and we haven't been able to find a reseller willing/able to sell us perpetual copies (I'm not sure how hard our purchasing pers. With that said, we have upgraded to VS 2022 and find it much better than 2017 (we skipped 2019), and we would not object to dropping 2019. Adam
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