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Re: How about a committee library as well as a standard library? (was Fwd: Distributed random number ordering)

From: Richard Hodges <hodges.r_at_[hidden]>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 16:07:16 +0200
On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 13:01, Guy Cpp via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Not everything needs to go in the standard library. Discovery is a problem
> though. Why doesn't the committee host a library of useful things?
>
> Not everything needs to go in the standard library.

Very much agreed.

> Discovery is a problem though.

Also agreed. It's almost as if there needs to be a standard package manager.

> Why doesn't the committee host a library of useful things?

A number of committee members do write and host libraries.

You will find many (but not all) of them at boost.org

Some good places to ask for directions to quality libraries would be:

Cpplang slack : https://cppalliance.org/slack/

#include discord server: https://www.includecpp.org/discord/

Received on 2021-05-14 09:07:29