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I agree 100% with Linus, especially the boost comment. It was heavily used in a project I worked on and "boost" soon became a curse word.
by tboneatx 10y ago
I agree 100% with Linus, especially the boost comment. It was heavily used in a project I worked on and "boost" soon became a curse word.
- garaetjjte 10y agoI don't agree with Linus, but yes, boost is horrible.
- Scea91 10y agoI don't agree with you, boost is great.
- fnj 10y agoRather than continue with unsupported opinion, I'd rather make the specific point that Boost served well as incubator and proving ground for such constructs as shared_ptr and unique_ptr, which have been subsumed into the C++ standard as undeniably huge improvements. As a result, the unfortunate abortion auto_ptr has finally been able to be consigned to a well-deserved resting place in Hell. Other parts of Boost have been considerably less impressive, and virtually nobody uses them. I struggled at length trying to get Boost::Parameter to work, with zero success. Boost::Format at least works, but ends up cumbersome, and does not approach the usability of {} formatting in Python.
- leaningtower 10y agoYou should not really judge a tool by the bad use the people make of it. Hammers are perfectly fine with nail but they are horrible at cutting bread