[mattnewport]

I inherited EASTL (EA's internal implementation of the C++ STL designed to be more suitable for use in games) for a while after the original author left EA, although I'd already done some work on it while he was still there. It's now open source on GitHub. There's also a paper out there outlining the original motivation and design goals.

It was generally very well written and where it differs from the standard there's usually an interesting reason why. It had extensive unit tests that ran automatically across a very wide range of supported platforms and compilers including all major desktop, mobile and console platforms. It is generally much more legible than the STL implementation used by Microsoft (which was one of its design goals) while also often more efficient. It's the STL so it's mostly fundamental algorithms and data structures and widely useful utilities of general interest rather than very domain specific business logic.