Lately I've been thinking that while Python's got its standard bag of goodies, as does Java, PHP, Perl, and C#, C++ has been missing out on a lot of love from the community. Granted, it has the Standard Template Library, and that's great for what it is, but after using the higher level languages so much, it felt like something was missing.

However, thanks to some judicious digging around, I've found that there's a spiffy library (set of libraries, really) out there called Poco. It's basically attempting to be a treasure chest of things any programmer will have to deal with (database access, socket handling, configuration file parsing, et al), and providing a pretty nice interface for it. Whereas Boost provides handy idioms and tools to build the tools you need for an application, this is more along the lines of "inherit, override, compile, and go!".

Kind of like Python or PHP, really. (: