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Why we don't use the standard C++ library?

Why we don't use the standard C++ library?

In this video I explain why I would never write products on top of the ‘standard’ C++ library:

The standard C++ library used to be called the standard template library - STL. The STL is basically built by a committee who aren’t really fully understanding the problem they are solving.

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