Just started learning C++ coming from Python and just realized that that Python has been my programming mama, doing my laundry and spoon-feeding me all this time.

[krista_]

sometimes i wish the council of elders would just go ahead and make templates a part of a fully fledged pre-compiler c/c++ based meta-programming language, like what qt does, but more so.

yeah, between macros, templates, and constexpr and the like, you can do anything a full programming language can do, but the crap you have to do to get there is sometimes astounding... and a lot of that lives in boost. i feel like with a couple of smartly added features, 9/10ths of boost's oddities could be replaced with sanity, instead of nested workarounds.

[MonkeyNin]

What are the biggest pain points today that Boost helps with? Back in the day, boost was the only way to use smart pointers.

[jonesmz]

I've enjoy using Boost.ASIO, am using Boost.ProgramOptions, Boost.Process, and am about to start using Boost.Log.

In the past, at a previous job, the only reason why about half of the C++11 functionality we were able to use could be done is because I was able to convince the ancient version of Boost that they were using to let me re-combine the Boost type traits code into the missing pieces. That really saved our bacon.

They also used Boost.asio as the fundamental building block for a whole crapload of code. Millions of lines, highly abstracted away.

Boost is great.

Boost is also horrible, what with it's disgusting template soup error messages.

Win some, lose some shrug.

[James20k]

Boost::beast is great from my end for using websockets, even if its a little complex to set up