Boost
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5recommend
2warn against
Dec 1, 2025first mention
Oct 21, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Boost polycollection.is better than what you propose”
“There is Boost in C++. It is very mature and honestly modern C++ has a lot of extremely powerful stdlib functionality”
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“Boost offers intrusive_prt for this.”
“we're sticking with Boost.”
Caveats and dissent
“the headache of setting up a project and tooling to do that was enough to push me to other languages”
“I once tried to use Boost coroutines but it was too much headache and I switched to a different approach.”
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All comments 18
“Boost polycollection.is better than what you propose”
“There is Boost in C++. It is very mature and honestly modern C++ has a lot of extremely powerful stdlib functionality”
“Boost”
“Boost offers intrusive_prt for this.”
“The Boost libraries offer this though”
“boost seems to know some now”
“git, OpenGL, CUDA, Boost, Jenkins”
“Boost”
“the headache of setting up a project and tooling to do that was enough to push me to other languages”
“Lots of C++23, Qt 6.9, CMake, git, OpenGL, CUDA, Boost, Jenkins.”
“we used Boost in a C++ code base”
“Technologies: Lots of C++23, Qt 6.9, CMake, git, OpenGL, CUDA, Boost, Jenkins.”
“Boost actually uses 'perlex'”
“I once tried to use Boost coroutines but it was too much headache and I switched to a different approach.”
“Mostly C++23, Qt 6.9, CMake, git, OpenGL, CUDA, Boost, Jenkins.”
“Even Boost has those.”
“we're sticking with Boost.”
“Mostly C++23, Qt 6.9, CMake, git, OpenGL, CUDA, Boost, Jenkins”