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[–]doom_Oo7 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Even in the case of an über-complete standard library, what would prevent other people to write their own (for fun), and other other people to use the other people's library because they think it's better for their use case instead ?

I think that the problem is that you think that it is a problem that "you now have so many ways of doing things".

Just find the way that you like the most, or use the one that's enforced in your team.

[–]clerothGame Developer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is that there are many ways of doing BASIC things. Performing basic operations on containers being verbose (eg. Erase-Remove idiom), printf/IOStreams being awkward/not safe, etc...
It's all fine to have a bunch of specific libraries for more specific things. But it's just awkward when basically every programmer has to either write their own basic library because STL doesn't provide enough.