On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM Jakob Lövhall via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
I much prefer boost versions of many things compared to the std, because std refuses to improve after the first release. usually citing abi stability. This makes boost libraries which have a direct std competitor still valuable. Perhaps not all, but some. The standard has had a unordered_map since forever, but boost unordered still has its place.
Right, and this feature is about choice. If you never choose a "minimum C++ version" then you will always see all the libraries. I agree about unordered_map. Is every Boost library better than its std equivalent, or do you feel that there are some libraries which are in fact obsolete? For example, how do you feel about Boost.Assign and Boost.Move? Thanks