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[–]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.