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.

Forget about binding to libraries, every major OS and almost all minor OSes expose their system API in C, and assume an application-side libc dependency. That's the fundamental bullshit about computing.