Boost 1.36.0 released - With Four New Libraries
Monday August 18, 2008
Boost is the C++ next generation STL and it's almost six months since 1.35.0 was released on Boost's 10th Anniversary (or pretty near). Boost is a collection of high quality peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries that work with the C++ Standard Library. It's in a state of continual development and his release has many updates as well as four new libraries for statistical accumulation, transporting data between exceptions and threads, dimensional analysis conversion and unordered
associative containers.
The quality of Boost software is kept deliberately high; Ten Boost Libraries are included in the C++ Standard Library's TR1 (The next version) and getting your code accepted into Boost is by no means easy. If you want to become a better C++ programmer, develop an understanding of how and where you might use some of the Boost libraries. It's free with full source code and an extensive list of libraries. Highly recommended.
- Link to C++ Programming Tutorials
- Link to C++ Code Library
For the record, Boost is not “the C++ next generation STL”. It’s a collection of libraries that solve common C++ tasks. Some of these are features that were a good fit for the Standard Library (smart pointers, hash containers) and were eventually adopted into tr1, but others are not (obscure math functions, Python connectivity, image processing).