Re: [boost] Thoughts on Boost v2

Subject: Re: [boost] Thoughts on Boost v2
From: Jonathan Wakely (jwakely.boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-19 20:17:50

On 17 May 2014 11:45, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2014 11:10:51 Niall Douglas wrote:
>>
>> 1. Boost isn't sexy any more. As one very highly respected world
>> famous engineer put it - and I won't say who, and I apologise to him
>> for stealing his words without attribution:
>>
>> "Boost used to be about all the stuff you really wanted in the
>> standard. Now Boost looks like all the stuff that wasn't good enough
>> to get into the standard"
>
> I disagree with it completely and fighting the urge to use the word
> "ridiculous". There are no tools like Boost.Intrusive, Boost.Spirit,
> Boost.Interprocess or Boost.ASIO, not to mention things like XML, advanced
> networking (HTTP, FTP, SSL, etc.), encryption, the holy grail of GUI and many
> other domains not covered by Boost. You got threading, regex and a couple new
> containers and think you're covered? I think the previously hopelessly lacking
> STL got a little less hopelessly lacking.

I didn't read that quote as saying that the standard library has
everything you want, only that the things you want aren't in Boost
either.

Maybe XML, advanced networking, encryption and GUI libraries are "the
stuff you really want in the standard" but you won't find them in
Boost.