Abseil Platform Support Update
▻https://abseil.io/blog/20201001-platforms
Abseil Platform Support Update
By Derek Mauro, Abseil Engineer
In September 2017, Abseil made the following support promise:
We will support our code for at least 5 years. We will support language versions, compilers, platforms, and workarounds as needed for 5 years after their replacement is available, when possible. If it is technically infeasible (such as support for MSVC before 2015, which has limited C++11 functionality), those will be noted specifically. After 5 years we will stop support and may remove workarounds. ABSL_HAVE_THREAD_LOCAL is a good example: the base language feature works on everything except Xcode prior to Xcode 8 ; once Xcode 8 is out for 5 years, we will drop that workaround support.
The ability to evolve over time has long been a goal of the Abseil (...)