> the C++ standard library offers me little. Lost me there already. > Its concepts regarding ownership and memory management are irreconcilable (move semantic

> the C++ standard library offers me little. Lost me there already. > Its concepts regarding ownership and memory management are irreconcilable (move semantics, smart pointers, etc.), so I have to build from scratch anyway. Absolutely not. The standard library has a zillion things, most pairs of which are independent and even unrelated. No type traits, no pairs and tuples, no std::arrays etc. - all things that are completely independent from memory management and ownership.