Criticizing software is easy, yet the C++ and C standard libraries have withstood the test of time admirably. Nevertheless, they are not perfect. Especially the , , and headers. The first two alone bring in over 20,000 lines of code, slowing the compilation of every translation unit by over 100 milliseconds. Most of that code seems dated, much slower than LibC, and equally error-prone, with interfaces that are very hard to distinguish.
