Visual Studio 14.0 !!top!! -

Open devenv.exe properties from VS 2015 today, and you’ll see 14.0.xxxxx . The splash screen says 2015. The compiler toolchain says 14.0. This is the first layer of the ghost.

So yes:

Before VS 14.0 (MSVC 2015), the MSVC compiler was a running joke in C++ circles. C++11 support was partial. C++14 was a distant dream. Two-phase lookup? Broken. Expression SFINAE? Good luck. visual studio 14.0

Let’s dig into the archaeology. During the early development cycles of what would become Visual Studio 2015 , Microsoft internally labeled the next release as Visual Studio 14.0 . Early previews, developer builds, and even some official documentation referred to the product as "Visual Studio 14" or "VS14." Open devenv