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> and natural inclinations of programmers(to use the new shiny thing).

It seems like C++ keeps getting shinier. Though organizations might try to stick to a limited subset of C++ anyway.

> It seems like C++ keeps getting shinier. Though organizations might try to stick to a limited subset of C++ anyway.

I agree with both points. And I'm glad the shiny new parts of C++ are very usable

For the parts that are still missing I have found the Boost library to help round it out in a cross platform sort of way. (http://www.boost.org/)