Thank you, Rob. Will you be at CppCon? Please introduce yourself if you're there! -Harry On Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 6:24 PM Robert Jones via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Well... I love Boost, but I'm very far from being any authority, so pinch of salt and all that.
I've used Boost since the C++98 era, and at that time I saw it very much an incubator for what often became part of the STL. Bind, Lamda, Ranges, Concepts etc. But since then, the STL and C++ language standard have become a more structured effort (thank you Committee!), and that role for Boost seems to have dwindled somewhat. I'm no longer quite sure what Boost represents, although it's still an amazing repository. It seems to be one among many now, rather the preeminent authority it once was.
I shall view your presentation with great interest!
Rob
On Mon, 31 Aug 2026 at 23:05, Harold Bott via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org
wrote:
Hi all,
I'm giving "The State of Boost" at CppCon this year, and before I lock the content down I'd like to hear from the people who actually make Boost what it is. Since this is the first year for a "State of Boost" (I hope this will be a yearly talk!) I wanted to give more than just what happened in the past year.
Here's roughly what I plan to cover. First, what Boost is today and why it's worth building on. Second, the people: the founders and the contributors who made Boost possible in the first place. Third, a few specific libraries: Unordered, Intrusive, MultiIndex, and Decimal. Finally, where Boost is heading: the networking work, safety (Profiles), and the Boost Documentary (which will be screened at CppCon).
I chose those libraries because I wanted to show a recent one (Decimal) as well as some well established ones (comparing Intrusive and MultiIndex) and show some benchmarks (Unordered).
So: does anyone have an issue with the libraries I've picked? Are there libraries you think should be in the talk instead, or alongside them? I'd rather hear it now than after the slides are final. Is anyone attending CppCon?
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