I happen to be using the Visual Studio 2013 compiler, so although there are some C++11 features I can make use of, others are still lacking. Notably, I'm unable to use the noexcept specifier and ...

Visual Studio 2015 offers a number of features for debugging. so why not use the latest version? Even if you still compile using VS 2013, you can open projects in VS2015, change the Platform Toolset ...

Visual Studio, however, is not an open-source project; it is a profit center for Microsoft. (I think it's fairly obvious that Microsoft wants to encourage .NET usage instead of C++, anyway.) ••• ...