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There in lies the problem boost is a collection of libraries that are more or less unrelated to each other. So sure spirit is a major pile of template catastro
by stonemetal 15y ago
There in lies the problem boost is a collection of libraries that are more or less unrelated to each other. So sure spirit is a major pile of template catastrophe, as are some of the others (boost::lambda was my introduction to something I should never do with templates.) Then you have the others. FileSystem has nary a template in sight, Asio and Thread have a few but they aren't crazy.
- chancho 15y agoThe presence of "octonions" in the boost library kept me from seriously considering it for like 2 years. I understand the rationale--that by making it monolithic they're getting more libraries installed on more developer's machines--but come on. If I need threads, filesystem, date_time, foreach, etc. don't make me install wave, spirit, proto, phoenix, fusion, fucking octonions.