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Microsoft has released a CTP of Visual C++ Compiler



The Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP contains a preview release of the Visual C++ compiler that adds the following C++11, C++14, and C++/CX features to the set of features already supported by the Visual C++ compiler shipped in Visual Studio 2013:

• Implicit move special member function generation (thus also completing =default)
• Reference qualifiers on member functions (a.k.a. "& and && for *this")
• Thread-safe function local static initialization (a.k.a. "magic statics")
• Inheriting constructors
• alignof/alignas
• __func__
• Extended sizeof
• constexpr (except for constructors)
• noexcept (unconditional)
• C++14 decltype(auto)
• C++14 auto function return type deduction
• C++14 generic lambdas (with explicit lambda capture list)
• (Proposed for C++17) Resumable functions and await A tour of these features is available on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Stephan-T-Lavavej-Core-C-/Core-Cpp-10

More details about this release are available from the Visual C++ Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/11/18/announcing-the-visual-c-compiler-november-2013-ctp.aspx
  Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP