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Spirrwell
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Hi there!
To clarify my question, I'm not asking about a 64-bit version of Visual Studio. (though that would be nice)
Are there any plans to make it so when you create a new project in Visual Studio, it targets the 64-bit architecture by default?
Whenever I create a new C++ project for example, it has configurations for both x86 and x64, BUT x86 is the default configuration.
64-bit machines are standard with PCs, phones, and consoles. It's likely that with "x86" being the current default that this fosters developers into targeting 32-bit by default which is a negative if there is a desire to ever rip out 32-bit support from Windows years down the line.
I'm curious what others think, but I personally believe it would be good idea to slowly phase out 32-bit, and a good way to start that is to try to nudge developers to target 64-bit by default for new applications.
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To clarify my question, I'm not asking about a 64-bit version of Visual Studio. (though that would be nice)
Are there any plans to make it so when you create a new project in Visual Studio, it targets the 64-bit architecture by default?
Whenever I create a new C++ project for example, it has configurations for both x86 and x64, BUT x86 is the default configuration.
64-bit machines are standard with PCs, phones, and consoles. It's likely that with "x86" being the current default that this fosters developers into targeting 32-bit by default which is a negative if there is a desire to ever rip out 32-bit support from Windows years down the line.
I'm curious what others think, but I personally believe it would be good idea to slowly phase out 32-bit, and a good way to start that is to try to nudge developers to target 64-bit by default for new applications.
Continue reading...