Can Boost be used as a full replacement of the C++ Standard library? [closed]

Question

Say I have minimal headers like <new>, <initializer_list>, and maybe some other stuff, is it possible to use Boost to function as a std C++ library, or is there a lot of code missing?

I'm assuming a C standard library, which might have sucky versions of things like printf (think Windows), will Boost provide better implementations in <boost/cstddef> (or something)?

Answer 1

No. Boost is not designed to replace the C++ standard library; it is designed to complement and extend the C++ standard library. Also, Boost depends heavily on the C++ standard library.

Answer 2

Well, no. For example, Boost doesn't define a stream encapsulating standard out. Sure, you can use STDOUT itself with some lower-level functions, but by that logic you can do pretty much everything without using the standard library at all.