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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe24-Mar-16 23:27
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I think looking for a single comprehensive library for C++ misses the point of C++. In fact, that is what spawned Java in the first place which captured popularity by offering automatic garbage collection which was not baked into C++. C# was merely a "me too" programming language to take on Java. But as Bjarne Stroustrup says in one of his books, there are a dozen such garbage collection libraries to be had in C++. The same goes for GUI libraries (eg, I use BCGSoft's GUI lib and not Qt). I also have an encryption lib I subscribe to. And for other parts of the code, I write my own managers that tend to look like library pre-cursors. But the main reason I use C++ exclusively is, I'm not beholden to a single corporation's fickleness. C++ is internationally standardized which means there are 100 Computer Science professors at any one time making dead sure the language is relevant, fast and correct. Each chosen library vendor I work with is chosen out of deep respect for their company's longevity and integrity of their product. The pennies I pay for their libs would have cost me dollars to write my self assuming I could.

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