5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Boost first-hand: 2 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“after about two hours I decided I will never again use any library that relied on boost.”
regret · personal · dkersten · 2023-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“"Well... We're using Boost elsewhere..." Now we use C. Not C++.”
regret · production · shakna · 2016-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In general, I'm anti-boost, but I think it's a personal bias and we use the hell out of it at work to great effect.”
mixed · production · alexgartrell · 2013-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With C++11 and boost, I'm able to translate my Python code to C++ while preserving the functional style”
endorse · production · law · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It has some fairly smart cache invalidation logic as well. At work we use the cache invalidation logic”
endorse · production · mikeytown2 · 2010-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?