On 2/24/2013 12:44 PM, boost-users-request-at-lists.boost.org |Boost/Allow to home| wrote:

Are you implying this of Boost libraries in general ? If so I beg to differ. Boost libraries cover more than .Net libraries do in the realm of general purpose programming. The .Net API very nicely covers APIs specific to Windows programming and some general purpose APIs, but not nearly so much as Boost does of the latter.

I do not mean to start an opinion war but I think your reply above gives the OP the wrong idea about the strengths of Boost libraries, especially as he is new to Boost. And yes I have programmed in .Net ( both C# and C++/CLI ) pretty extensively.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Interactive-Pan... at about 30 Minutes, “no large libraries [for C++]” http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/C-11-VC-11-and-... Thesis starts at 1:15, lasts till nearly the end. Now I would agree that his counting picks up a lot of "bloat" from API wrappers, but he does mention more specific examples of libraries that are needed for standard C++. Could you elaborate on your remarks, using this as a starting point of where we are coming from? —John