c++0x library availability in any compiler?

Question

The standard will doubtless take years to put in place, which stinks because it looks great. But I was reading it, and at least the library additions (hash maps in particular) would be really useful right away. I noticed in the g++ docs that I can get 4.3 or better and use a flag to request the new features, whatever exists, but I was wondering if there is any way to just get the library. And the fact that lots of the best boost stuff is now built in is really great, finally a decent random number facility built in!

So, are there any compilers which I can use right now which have a reasonably complete library in place, even if it can't use some of the cool new language features like auto?

Answer 1

If you want the standard library extensions, you can use Boost. The new standard library enhancements were mainly inspired by Boost libraries anyway.

As for supporting compilers, Visual Studio 2010 supports a subset of the C++11 standard, GCC has currently the best support for C++11 and Clang is also adopting the new standard. Don't know about other compilers but I think they will soon follow.