The Boost Virus

Why is everyone so fucking inclined to use Boost?
Why do you need to add a fuck ton of dependencies on your small toy programs?

Can't you just stick with vanilla C++ and do us all a favor?

If there's anything I'm never installing for a project? It's boost.

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C++ gives rise to powerful abstractions.

No, C++ gives rise to very constrained abstractions. The way you abstract and the tools you use to do so are railroaded by the fear of computational cost of the C++ designers. The only way to get anything semi-abstract out of it is with the template explosion of STL and Boost, or large amounts of manually added runtime code. I would not call this "powerful" in comparison to the rest of the field.