I've been a hardcore C programmer for decades and just got into C++11 this past year. I LIKE the standard library.† It's pretty much just basic data layout st

I've been a hardcore C programmer for decades and just got into C++11 this past year. I LIKE the standard library.† It's pretty much just basic data layout stuff that I've done 100 times manually in C, nothing more, nothing less. Leave the complicated data structures and libraries to 3rd parties. std::vector is already exactly what I want (though it could do with one fewer specialization ;). There's pretty much one way to implement it and they got it right. On the other hand, there's 100 ways to implement, say, an HTTP client, and they're all wrong. † Except for iostreams. Ugh.