People who spent many years developing C++ already understand what the standard library offers, regardless on whether they studied that deliberately. People co

People who spent many years developing C++ already understand what the standard library offers, regardless on whether they studied that deliberately. People coming to the language lack the expertise to tell well-designed code from bad-designed. It’s tempting to treat the whole standard library as an example of the former. Maybe that’s a personal thing but I remember doing that when I just started my career back in 2000. STL wasn’t quite there but MFC was already in wide use. Because I lacked the experience I considered whatever’s there is good, and ended up using not so good parts such as C++ exceptions and macro-driven dynamic serialization.