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I really don't understand why STL gets so little love.

Well, in light of the fact that the author makes reference to his game industry background, you may find interesting the perspectives given in this paper: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...

And partial source code for the library described in the paper: https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL

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The game industry does have somewhat unique requirements so I can understand why they'd need something more tailored. On the other hand that paper was written 7 years ago, which is ancient history now. For general purpose stuff I've found the STL works just fine, even in the realtime DSP stuff I've been working on.

The biggest problem I've had working with the STL is that people avoided it for a long time so when you're dealing with third party code you usually also have to deal with custom vector, string, list etc. implementations.

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