Hello!

[Omnipraesens]

Hello,

I recently discovered SFML, and I must say, I vastly prefer it over SDL... I might even say in some cases that SFML is superior.
I would consider myself a novice C++ programmer... I'm sloooooow, and I don't know any other languages. Anyway, you know what works really well with SFML when making games? A little (okay, maybe not so little) and very ambitious free library called Ultimate++, which comes paired with it's own really awesome IDE. It does a lot of things unrelated to games, yes, but its Core library and IDE for me are simply indispensable as programming aids. Their website is: http://www.ultimatepp.org

Also, though everybody probably knows about them, the Boost libraries (http://www.boost.org) are really great to use in almost any application, due to their multitude of great generic features.

I use the aforementioned libraries to almost completely supplant the standard libraries in my applications. Does anyone have comments on that?

Well, I hope someone else finds my information useful or at very least finds it amusing (whether condescendingly or not, it doesn't matter).

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Is this an introduction or a question about libraries?  Anyways, most people won't care what libraries you pick to go with. 

[Nexus]

Is this an introduction or a question about libraries?

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I use the aforementioned libraries to almost completely supplant the standard libraries in my applications. Does anyone have comments on that?

This can be a good idea if your application is heavily interacting with these libraries, e.g. very GUI-focused. But I would probably not recommend it general, especially if you're working with other people -- external libraries need some additional time to be understood, and they often do things differently... In short, there has to be a good reason for reinvening the wheel, and I have made the experience that many libraries fail to provide one

Out of interest, what features are you exactly replacing, and what are they doing better? I wanted to have a look at Ultimate++ some years ago, but then eventually didn't. For Boost I'm wondering, as it is mostly an addition or contains parts that have already been integrated to the standard library...