Fun fact: at the same time, the most famous C++ library, Boost, is reviewing the `async-mqtt5` implementation (https://github.com/mireo/async-mqtt5) to be included in Boost as Boost.MQTT: https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2024/10/index.php

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!

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.

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.

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

Do you provide a decent C++ client library? ZooKeeper only provides a C library that has certain... disadvantages.

Nice one :) I suppose being a non-native speaker is not a good excuse?

On the contrary -- being a non-native speaker is an excellent excuse!

Google set up the COVID-19 Research Explorer. Reading more than 50,000 papers about COVID-19, and allowing to ask natural language questions over that corpus.

Hi, thanks for the interest! Yes, we are planning to publish more details about the novel index structure, so feel free to visit https://blog.mireo.hr/ every 2 weeks.

Very soon we will also launch a live demo with 200,000 vehicles, so you'll be able to try SpaceTime capabilities on your own :)

Of course. MSQL queries can be as simple as "select * from st.trips", but can also include geospatial functions that we implemented and that are not part of standard SQL: "select vid, sum(sphere_length(x[0], y[0], x[1], y[1])) as mileage from st.segments where ST_Intersects( ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON ((11955008 38520960,11995328 38530624,11998976 38531456,11955008 38520960))'), ST_Line(x[0], y[0], x[1], y[1]) ) and t[0] >= 1569888000 and t[1] < 1572566400 and vid >= 3200 and vid <= 3300 group by vid"

Actually, a query very similar to the one listed above generates the report mileage-in-area mentioned in the blog.