Hopefully I don't screw up the quoting. Somehow I missed the original post. On 7/5/07, Scott McMurray <me22.ca+boost@gmail.com> wrote: ...
Currently the STL is quite useless. It basically serves for supporting book examples. For everything else you need either thread, network or GUI support (often all of them). As a result you have to use some library (wxWidgets, Qt). These of course all replace the STL completely
wxWidgets replaces the STL completely?!? I work on a project that uses wx for thread and GUI support (including OpenGL graphics support), and we make *extensive* use of the STL and moderate use of several of the boost libraries. It turns out that *most* of our code actually deals with the logic of solving our particular domain problems. The GUI, network, and threads code has to actually *do* something, and we use STL and boost heavily to implement our algorithms. We have our own (crummy) in-house middleware, which I would love to replace w/ ASIO, not wxSocket et al. Once boost.Thread is more complete, we may switch that as well. I would really love to use a stable/complete GUI framework that uses modern C++. However I don't think that such a beast exists yet. Jon