I guess the main gripe is performance. Using STL containers involves lots of implicit heap allocations and copying things around (this last thing should have im

I guess the main gripe is performance. Using STL containers involves lots of implicit heap allocations and copying things around (this last thing should have improved after the introduction of move semantics, does anyone have any numbers on that?). Most of the times performance is perfectly acceptable but a few cases when it is not + inertia can give rise to this anti-STL sentiment. Here for example std::string takes a beating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704318