> Many of the STL containers in MSVC are incredibly cursed. Even std::vector is implemented in such a weird way, that you can't debug it easily with any debugge

> Many of the STL containers in MSVC are incredibly cursed. Even std::vector is implemented in such a weird way, that you can't debug it easily with any debugger other than Visual Studio. And it's incredibly slow on Debug mode, up to the point that it's unusable... (Because of these reasons I just switched to using my own Vector<T> class recently) Here's a link to an old HN discussion that offers some insight on the performance of MSVC's STL in debug. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18939260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18939260 The "cursed" keyword hand-waves over the problem and suggests it originates in the acritical propagation of ignorant beliefs. Sometimes clarifying these is just a Google search away.