7 Jul
2025
7 Jul
'25
12:06 p.m.
It Bootstrapped C++11 but for long term projects Boost nowadays isn't very useful.
Since this was with respect to keeping things ABI stable. In my view, boost accepting ABI breakage is the very reason that it stays relevant. The standard library for some popular compilers are stuck in the past while there are known improvements which are not implemented due to ABI stability. This makes the standard library way less useful for long-term projects, since its known that they will never improve, or even fix issues in case it potentially changes the ABI. See for example std regex or std unordered map. Boost implementing improvements regardless of ABI is one of the great things with Boost.