title: Toolchain support for the C++11 standard
body: <p>I am currently updating my knowledge on C++ to the new standard. It makes me feel like a little kid that just got the awesomest toy: I want to play with it all the time but I don't want to lose my friends because of it.</p>
  
  <p>I am involved in a few open source projects for which some of the new features would be <em>extremely</em> useful, so I am quite keen on using them. My question is how many <em>users</em> can compile C++11 code, e.g. what's the adoption rate of C++11-complete compilers in the general public? Does anyone have related information?</p>
  
  <p>I know that <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2013/msg00004.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">gcc 4.8.1</a> and <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">clang 3.3</a> are C++11 feature complete, but I have no idea how many people actually use compilers that are up to date. I know most codemonkeys surely do, but what about the average open source user? Slapping potential users in the face and telling them to update their compilers is not really an option.</p>
  
  <p>I am aware that this question may be criticised/closed for being similar to these questions:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1754397/how-are-you-using-c11-today">How are you using C++11 today?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3165400/to-use-or-not-to-use-c0x-features?lq=1">To use or not to use C++0x features</a></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I would like to point out that things are different now, since we are talking about an actual approved standard. I believe that being aware of its adoption rate is important in practice for programming.</p>