10 years ago for me it was because it was really hard to get it to compile. I might get it setup on my cygwin install or my linux but have trouble compiling it

10 years ago for me it was because it was really hard to get it to compile. I might get it setup on my cygwin install or my linux but have trouble compiling it on both. I was able to get mozilla compiling faster/easier then boost... It's probably improved a lot since then, but back then if you had asked me to use boost I'd be rather upset as well... I think now days at least on linux there are packages for boost so it's not bad at all and also homebrew for mac so that's exciting.