Boost VS Loki

Compare Boost vs Loki and see what are their differences.

Boost

Super-project for modularized Boost (by boostorg)

Loki

Loki is a C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms. (by snaewe)
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Boost Loki
9 -
6,569 229
2.4% -
9.8 0.0
3 days ago over 10 years ago
HTML C++
Boost Software License 1.0 -
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Boost

Posts with mentions or reviews of Boost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.
  • The Future of Boost by Vinnie Falco
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 8 May 2023
    git clone https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git -b ${{ inputs.branch }} "${{ inputs.boost-dir }}" --depth 1 git submodule update --depth 1 -q --init tools/boostdep python tools/boostdep/depinst/depinst.py --include library_i_want"
  • Boost – a new open-source desktop app for managing Spring Boot microservices
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2023
    Any thoughts on why it has exactly the same name as a popular source available project that's been around since the 1990s?

    earliest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/19991011120524/http://www.boost....

    latest commit (today): https://github.com/boostorg/boost/commit/7727baea944c6365301...

    naming in 2023: "The Boost project provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries"

    naming in 1999: "The Boost web site provides a repository for free C++ libraries"

  • Introducing Boost - a new open source desktop app for managing Spring Boot microservices
    2 projects | /r/opensource | 18 Apr 2023
    Hmm...
  • Boost with RPMs
    1 project | /r/cpp | 30 Jan 2023
    include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(boost URL https://github.com/boostorg/boost/releases/download/boost-1.81.0/boost-1.81.0.tar.xz ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(boost) ...
  • Boost:Boost
    2 projects | /r/u_Pure-Ability-2363 | 19 Oct 2022
  • Boost v1.79.0 released
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 13 Apr 2022
    set(BOOST_INCLUDE_LIBRARIES system thread) # enabled libraries set(BOOST_ENABLE_CMAKE ON) # CMake support FetchContent_Declare(boost GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git ...
  • Easy to use, fast, git sourced based, statically linked C/C++ package manager.
    6 projects | /r/cpp | 22 Oct 2021
    In fact, boost has cmake files now — pretty recent addition and I haven’t got around to testing, but no reason to think it doesn’t work. https://github.com/boostorg/boost. Also, boost is getting more modular with every release — more and more libraries can be pulled independently with mostly only depending on boost.core. Asio has been like this forever, but Boost.math is a recent example to the bandwagon. You can find an independent release package for math on GitHub now.
  • Is there a uniform boost release download url?
    1 project | /r/cpp | 9 Aug 2021
    Do you build boost from sources? If so, maybe get the tar balls from their Github repository?

Loki

Posts with mentions or reviews of Loki. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Loki yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Boost and Loki you can also consider the following projects:

abseil-cpp - Abseil Common Libraries (C++)

Qt - Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)

Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.

Dlib - A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++

MiLi

JUCE - JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.

ffead-cpp - Framework for Enterprise Application Development in c++, HTTP1/HTTP2/HTTP3 compliant, Supports multiple server backends

EASTL - Obsolete repo, please go to: https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL

Yomm2 - Fast, orthogonal, open multi-methods. Solve the Expression Problem in C++17.