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I’m happy to announce that I’m now a co-maintainer of Boost.Redis , a high-level Redis client written on top of Asio, and hence sister of Boost.MySQL. I’m working with its author, Marcelo, to make it even better than what it is now (and that’s a lot to say).

Boost libraries typically maintain granular unit tests using Boost.Build (B2). B2 provides a run rule that makes it easy to define many independent test targets from a single source file or executable.

AI generated code has some fun side effects. Whilst generating a lot of code and testing it using Microsoft Visual Studio I had the odd experience of giving the AI model a line of buggy code, and it forthrightly states to replace this faulty line with this new line.

Added boost::hash_is_avalanching trait ( PR#40 ). This trait was originally in Boost.Unordered, but it makes sense that it be moved here because Boost.Bloom also uses it.

Most of my work during the first quarter of this year involved experimenting with things which haven’t yet reached the state where it would be interesting to discuss them. But there was a project that at this point is reaching its finish, and thus let’s focus on it.

When I’m not busy eternally grinding on implementing hashing algorithms, I’ll sometimes take a moment and help other Boost libraries. I enjoy being a kind of soldier of Boost. Deploy me to any library in the project and I’ll dive in and get results.

We continue to make exciting progress developing new libraries for inclusion in Boost.

It’s been an exciting quarter over here. Both old-but-refreshed and brand new projects are flourishing in the Boost ecosystem, making today a really exciting moment to contribute to it.

Here’s an overview of some projects I have been working on the last few months.

We’re rolling full steam ahead into the future of Boost, and there’s never been a better time to get involved!

My focus this quarter has been on drawing in C++ developers who are new to the Boost libraries. When I did my time at Microsoft, writing API documentation, THE most common question from the developer community was for sample code - more samples - better samples - samples with…

The library is ready for official review, which I plan to ask for in April. Chris Mazakas is helping with a very useful vcpkg registry so that future reviewers can download and install candidate Boost.Bloom and dependencies with minimal hassle via vcpkg.