ot didn't say that GCC's std::hash is amateurish, (s)he said that the article is: "...this is an amateurish post and it should be taken with a grain of salt..."

ot didn't say that GCC's std::hash is amateurish, (s)he said that the article is: "...this is an amateurish post and it should be taken with a grain of salt..." (And clarified in another reply that it was meant only in respect to hash-tables, not the authors programming skill in general) (s)he did call it an incredibly poor design choice, however. Which it may or may not be, regardless of whether GCC developers are amateurish or not.