Backward compatible implementations of newer standards constructs?

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  • optional

    C++11/14/17 std::optional with functional-style extensions and reference support (by TartanLlama)

  • For optional I would recommend Sy's implementation - optional

  • GSL

    Guidelines Support Library

  • For span I would recommend the guideline support library - gsl::span

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  • variant

    C++17 `std::variant` for C++11/14/17

  • For Variant I would recommend Michael Park's variant - mpark::variant

  • abseil-cpp

    Abseil Common Libraries (C++)

  • Check out https://abseil.io. It offers absl::optional, which is a backport of std::optional.

  • nonstd-lite

    Parent of *-lite repositories, a migration path to post-C++11 features for pre-C++11 environments

  • Check out nonstd-lite

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