The Boost C++ Library

It’s been a couple of years since I looked into boost. I thought it was cool then, and apparently it has just kept on rocking since. Lambda functions, threads, unit testing, assignment helpers, serialization, and much much much more. There seems to be a library for every missing part in the C++ standard library, and also a bunch of new functionalities. I’m as amazed as the first time I looked at it.

Browsing the code is also something. Some of the stuff is just outright beautifully done (depending a lot on the definition of beautiful, and accepting that C++ is an ugly language from the start of :) ).

What is sad for me, is that I cannot use this in Mozilla. That’s why I normally keep away from stuff like this in the first place — it only makes me sad in the long run. I need to start a “pet project” where I can actually use C++…