I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought about this but I think one of the things that holds me back from using it more is the fact that C++ doesn’t have a higher level standard library.

A while back I was thinking of writing a thread library that works both on Windows (my desktop) and Linux (my server) and I gave up and used Python for the project.

The problem is that Python is not fast enough for parts of my project and I have to use either C or C++ but I will go with C++ because of it’s Map and Vector containers etc.

I’m not sure why they didn’t implement all the good stuff that are in Python standard library in C++ but I think it’s really time.

I also found this great set of tools that might be in the next C++ standard library:
http://www.boost.org/

This is exactly what C++ needs; I don’t see why cross platform libraries for threading, database access etc. shouldn’t be included in C++ standard library.

It has a lot of great features; objects, operator overloading, many kinds of containers, templates, namespaces and it’s very fast.