The C++ Programmer's Bag of Tricks includes Doxygen, which is verily cool. I heard of Boost working on the Flightgear junk, but didn't know it was as official (that is, founded by members of the C++ Standards Committee
) or in as wide use as it is. Also:
While it's true that Python already comes with a C/C++ API, the Boost Python interface is in a different type of class (if you'll excuse the bad pun) altogether. The regular Python interface permits you to manually control the Python system like any other library, while Boost Python reverses this and allows Python to access and even extend C++ classes as though they were Python classes. It's very easy to grant Python scripts access to your C++ classes, and in doing so you just make it that much simpler for others to expand your code without even having to compile anything.
