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VengefulCynic on Oct 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Sorry State of C++ Portability

You don't need to use Microsoft products.

Unless you want to sell native software to the ~400 million Windows users worldwide. Regardless of how you feel about the platform, it seems foolish to fault someone for trying to sell software on it.

zalzane on Oct 24, 2012 [–]

you don't need to use visual studio's c++ compiler to create native windows binaries

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