It’s not just game studios who rewrote the standard library. I’ve seen non game companies with their own containers too. For those cases, it’s always just very old legacy code that nobody wants to touch, but if they were to do it again fresh today, they’d just use what comes with the language.
For places that have their own legacy containers and actively try to move more code to them—I dunno! I think at some point back in the 90’s the standard library got the reputation of being junk (perhaps rightfully) among game programmers, and this belief has been cargo culted all the way into 201x. Who knows.
For places that have their own legacy containers and actively try to move more code to them—I dunno! I think at some point back in the 90’s the standard library got the reputation of being junk (perhaps rightfully) among game programmers, and this belief has been cargo culted all the way into 201x. Who knows.