That's fair. C devs are also a little more used to being tied to specific OS facilities such kqueue/select. For me boost shines as an ASIO implementation. When

That's fair. C devs are also a little more used to being tied to specific OS facilities such kqueue/select. For me boost shines as an ASIO implementation. When that becomes stdlib, I'm not sure I would be compelled to use it. This is along the lines of the traditional abstraction level debates, rather than anything particularly wrong with boost. I think it gets singled out unfairly as being a particularly difficult 3rd party library.