Same, tend to avoid Boost wherever I can. Or at least, avoid most of their utilities. Boost.Config standalone seems to serve some good purposes, and there are like 3 or 4 tools that are in Boost that also function properly standalone (most notably, Boost.Nowide).
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the_artic_one@piefed.social · 9 pts · 175d
It's been forever since I've written C++ at a place that didn't have their own version of STL where they used different names for everything.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 175d
Hey, gotta love
MyCompany::Vector!the_artic_one@piefed.social · 8 pts · 175d
You mean
MyCompany::Array, not using the word "vector" has gotta be their primary reason for changing all the names.ulterno@programming.dev · 6 pts · 175d
I use C++ regularly and never used the 3.
Saw
std::valarrayin some code once, but never used it myself.I tend to avoid boost as much as I can.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 174d
Same, tend to avoid Boost wherever I can. Or at least, avoid most of their utilities. Boost.Config standalone seems to serve some good purposes, and there are like 3 or 4 tools that are in Boost that also function properly standalone (most notably, Boost.Nowide).
Avicenna@programming.dev · 3 pts · 174d
the original
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 174d
Danke! Always useful to have the reference.