Boost (programming)
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Boost is a collection of libraries that extend the functionality of C++. The libraries are licensed under the Boost Software License (http://www.boost.org/more/license_info.html), a very open license designed to allow Boost to be used with any project. Several Boost libraries have been accepted for incorporation into the next library technical report (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/library_technical_report.html) of the C++ standard committee.
Boost has a noticeable bias towards researching and extending the metaprogramming and generic programming features of the C++ language, with extensive use of templates. Because of very thorough peer review and quality control, libraries included in Boost exhibit very high quality. In order to use these libraries the programmer needs to be familiar with "modern C++".
Libraries
Boost provides extension libraries in the following areas:
- Algorithms
- Broken Compiler Workarounds
- Concurrent Programming (Threads)
- Containers
- Correctness and testing
- Data Structures
- Function Objects and Higher-Order Programming
- Generic Programming
- Graphs
- Input/Output
- Interlanguage Support
- Iterators
- Math and Numerics
- Memory
- Misc
- Parsing
- Preprocessor Metaprogramming
- String and Text Processing
- Template Metaprogramming
External links
- Boost Homepage (http://www.boost.org)
- Boost Libraries (http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm)