[flykespice]

> I would like C++ would be a little more "batteries included" in some ways, like having a basic standard for signals, networking (just handling sockets would be a huge thing), and some basic system calls.

Isn't Boost library basically that? C++ has been slowly adopting freatures from it to its standard library.

[zamadatix]

C++ has been adopting features from a lot of different libraries into the stdlib. These libraries don't always do it "The Boost Way™", even when Boost has an equivalent library. Boost has a lot of good stuff though, it's just a little farther from being "std++, why care about std?" than commonly advertised.