17 May
2016
17 May
'16
8:48 p.m.
I don't know who are insiders that are getting served, and what benefits who gets, and what "C++ community" you have in mind, but anybody I discuss Boost with are mostly concerned about overuse of templates and meta-programming, along with the lack of any API or ABI stability. Serving those C++ users requires stability and solid engineering above all, and this is what is presently missing. I am a newbe on this list, but so I am not sure whether anyone cares what I think, but I feel compelled to agree with this vision. For many
On 5/17/16 2:00 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote: projects in science, Boost is the de-facto standard library for C++. It fills the many gaps of the official standard library.