Why use Visual Studio 6 for C++ [closed]

Question

I am just wondering why programmers who program in C++ for windows always use Visual Studio 6 instead of Visual Studio 2008?

Isn't the compiler in 2008 much better than the one in VS6?

The reason I ask as I have used many sdk's that are always written in VS6?

Many thanks,

Steve

Answer 1

Partly it may be because earlier compilers are often (though not always) faster than later, and more feature-rich/standards-compliant, ones. I don't know whether this applies with VC6 vs later, but it may well do.

In the case of VC6 I think the two major factors are that the IDE is much faster to use than any of the painfully slow and greedy Visual Studio 200x IDEs, and that there's a huge amount of legacy code that will not compile with later, and more standards-compliant, VC++ compilers.