Do you use Boost library?

Hi,

I'm trying to determine how common it is to see boost in a development environment, and if most C++ developers are aware of the boost library.

Boost is a free portable library, that basically extends the standard C++ library.
See following link:
http://www.boost.org/

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Axter (David Maisonave)

I use boost for almost every C++ project, when standard library is not enough. I find it great extension for standard C++ library, however, it still IMO lacks some things (i. e. big numbers).

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I (and the team I'm working in) am using mainly the sprit library from boost, but other things too, such as shared_ptr.

No, why use boost shared pointers when I can use the wonderful Axter ones?

Actually where I work we do have boost. shared_ptr is probably the most used component but it wasn't being used in the project I inherited and when I started rewriting sections I didn't know boost was actually there on the file-system, plus it is only there for UNIX and not for Windows.

Was there a unique UNIX requirement, that they only needed it for?

Two main reasons I do not use Boost (I think it is a great product).

1) Much of my development is in managed (C# typically) environments. The capabilities of the CLR address many things that were provided by Boost.

2) When I still do native C++, it is typically custom work for a client. If they already use Boost, then great, I will use it. But if they don't the issues with getting them to adopt and learn a third party library can cause complications. As a result my libraries are "Boost-free", not because of technical reasons, but because of business reasons.

Any good tutorial about boost library beside the official documentation?

Thanks for your help.

Your help is greatly appreciated by me an others.