Re: A question for folks here

From: Christopher Kormanyos (e_float_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-07-10 18:14:21

 > who have been around for a while, what
> keeps you here? Why do you stay engaged?

A good reason to stay engaged is to maintain
your own libraries. Then you might make
some new ones or review some new ones.
It grows over time.

But how do you get there?

In the beginning I found Boost to be a
place of C++ competence. This was in those
dark times when it seemed like C++ would
just fail (curiously enough with no replacement).
Sometime around the turn of the
century, I started using Boost for stuff like
noncopyable and iterator_facade, spirit,
math, gil, boost.python and more.

I'll never forget the symbiosis between Boost
and C++11, the standard that literally saved
the language itself, granting it maturity and
longevity. I think without Booost, C++ might
be a lot worse off, maybe never even gaining
traction.

For this reason alone and for many more
(such as finding like minds to play with)
I stay.

Let's party

Chris

    On Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at 04:48:37 PM GMT+2, David Sankel via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:  
 
 For those who got involved in Boost within the last couple years, how did
you hear about boost? What attracted you to it?

For those who have been around for a while, what keeps you here? Why do you
stay engaged?

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