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> The C++ community is still only recently generally requiring C++11.

this doesn't match what I see. The Jetbrains 2023 survey reported that 80% of C++ in use was >= C++17. Qt, one of the most common C++ UI framework, has been requiring C++17 for five years and support C++20 types in its API.

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Ah, Jetbrains must be touching a different part of the elephant. My related experience is with compiling C++ programs meant for human people to run on their own home computers. I imagine internal company dev projects like Jetbrains would cover don't care nearly so much about compatibility.

Also I note that 25%+ of the Jetbrains 2023 survey use C++11 or older. And 50% of Jetbrains survey devs say "No, I don't plan to move to another C++ standard" from C++11. So it's likely that 25% will stay high.

C++14 minimum is the standard

I agree. We recently moved to C++14 because we wanted shared_ptr<> and make_shared<>. Made our lives immensely easier.

Nah it's not just Jetbrains. C++17 is the bare minimum at this point. It's even the default in GCC.

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