[formerly_proven]

Is Boost still something people reach for in newer projects? Anecdotally most adoption I've seen happened in the 00s and very early 2010s (pre everyone mandating C++0x/C++11), I only rarely see it around these days.

edit: boost.org is a blast from the past, still looks exactly like I remember it from like 2008. Down to the "Get Boost" shopped on an emergency off button!

[spacechild1]

AFAICT Boost.Asio is still the go-to networking library. (Though Asio is also available as a standalone outside of Boost, I didn't know that until recently.)

Apart from that, Boost has quite a few goodies such as Boost.Json, Boost.Program_options, Boost.Interprocess, Boost.Lockfree, Boost.Unordered, Boost.Dynamic_Bitset, etc.

Some libraries, like Boost.Atomic, Boost.Thread, Boost.Chrono and Boost.Filesystem, simply became obsolete with modern C++ versions. In fact, they served as the blueprint for the corresponding C++ standard libraries.

Personally, I have been wary of using Boost in the past because it's such huge library, but CMake integration is actually quite good these days and I found it pretty easy to use. Documentation is also quite good IMO.

[miljen]

That is an interesting question. Here you can see the actual popularity of each library within Boost: https://grafikrobot.github.io/boost_lib_stats/. Also, see the comments at https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/130bzj8/has_boost_lost.... My company has been heavily utilizing Boost.Asio and Boost.Beast, so we've definitely reached for Boost in newer projects as well.

[happosai]

Boost appears to have become some kind of staging area for stdlib. Stuff that becomes popular in boost get eventually included in stdlib.