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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in comparison to the rest of the field.

Agreed. The frankenmonster C legacy is somewhat unfortunate, in combination with weird degrees of freedom to accomodate it. However what else is actually out there integrating with C, directly at semantic level, ie not as mere FFI.

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Crystal is really cute, owing much to orthogonal design of ruby OO. Still in its infancy, also needs a proper GC (or even better, rc).

Already using it to port some slow ruby tools.