Boost

It’s time to introduce another 3rd party library that some of the code we work on here will depend on: Boost. Hopefully, many of you are already familiar with Boost, and already have an up-to-date version of it installed. For those of you who don’t already know about it, I strongly suggest you check it out. It’s basically a collection of very useful, well designed and tested utility libraries, such as regular expressions, filename/path management, and serialization (which I discussed before in The Un-Fun Stuff). Many of the people who develop the Boost library are also heavily involved in designing the C++ Standard Library, and many of Boost’s sub-libraries are on track to be included in future versions of the C++ Standard Library. Read more