As the year comes to a close, I reflect on the exciting and productive final quarter of 2023. My involvement has been primarily focused on the Boost Libraries and the development of MrDocs, both of which have offered unique challenges and opportunities for growth. Boost Modularization: Refining and Collaborating Ongoing Boost Modularization Work: My primary focus has been on advancing the modularization of Boost. The effort is directed towards creating individual Conan packages for each Bo...

This last quarter has been an interesting one. Development on the Unordered library has slowed down so I’ve been re-tasked with aiding in the development of a whole new slew of HTTP/1-based libraries. The new year is a common time for reflection on where one’s been and how far one has come. When I first started working on Unordered, I knew relatively little about hash tables. I was somewhat versed in C++ container design and implementation but in hindsight, I knew little to nothing in actual...

During Q3 2023, my work has been to get the new Boost website ready to launch. Though I’ve been a fullstack developer most of my career, I came in to focus more on the front-end development. I started right before Q3, so much of the site architecture was already in place. Using TailwindCSS, which I was happy about, as I’d been using it for quite a while. The bulk of my work was to flesh out the sections of the site, clean up the styling, and to provide an overall better user experience. ...

My primary focus this quarter was getting MrDocs into a state where it can serve as a drop-in replacement for Doxygen/Docca in Boost.URL. Before diving into that, there are a few smaller things I addressed in other projects: Boost.StaticString Added support for platforms lacking wchar_t/wsnprintf Docca Added backward compatibility for operator names. Doxygen 1.8.15 and older generate operator names containing a space between operator and the subsequent tokens. This behavior changed i...

In the third quarter my work was mostly focused on improvements to JSON’s conversion features. In Boost.JSON conversion between user types and library containers is done with value_to and value_from functions. Conversions of composite types are attempted recursively. The library provides conversions for several common groups of types, including sequences, associative containers, tuples, numbers, and strings. Users also have the option to implement conversion for other types. The function valu...