I cannot speak to jandrewrogers specific reason, but the two major sticking points I've seen developers hit is the STL's bad allocator design and the lack of in

I cannot speak to jandrewrogers specific reason, but the two major sticking points I've seen developers hit is the STL's bad allocator design and the lack of intrusive data structures. Check out EASTL for more information [1][2]. [1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227... [2] https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL