Portability of Native C++ properties

Question

In Visual Studio, there is __declspec(property) which creates properties similar to C#. Borland C++ offers the __property keyword with the exact same functiona

Answer 1

Clang now has the Microsoft __declspec(property...) fully implemented and it optimizes beautifully. So you can use properties in your c++ across all platforms and intermix in gcc based or c99 code etc.

I have been using it for over a year, and waited for this to appear universally for more than five years.

It is one of the most powerful C++ tools for abstracting structure and refactoring code. I use it all the time to allow me to quickly build a structure and then refactor it later as performance or restructuring requires it.

It is invaluable and I really don't understand why the C++ standards have not adopted it long ago. But then again, they have so much of the complex and bloated boost way of using c++ and templates.

Clang is so portable across every platform now that having this feature is fantastic.

Development within (free or paid version of) Visual Studio using clang is almost seamless and you get the incredible debugging development toolset that just makes working on other toolsets and platforms painful by comparison.

I exclusively use clang now for all my c++ development.

See also: this cross-reference post