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VS2017 was the introduction of the modern VS installer that is way faster than the prior ones.
by jcotton42 1y ago
VS2017 was the introduction of the modern VS installer that is way faster than the prior ones.
- malkia 1y agoAlso (since 2015) forward/backward (to a degree) CRT compatibility. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-2015-2017 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-... This saved so much time, space and support - where previously we had to recompile stuff, and if you had Maya/MotionBuilder/etc plugin it had to use the right compiler. Also now even with newer IDE you can instruct the project to use older (or even better - a specific) version of the toolchain.