Agreed. Auto looks like a useless bit of syntatic sugar, but it can make working with the standard library (and its impenetrable iterator classes) a whole lot simpler. On top of that, boost has some nice features that make easy-but-annoying tasks like walking a file system and parsing program options easy.
If your last exposure to C++ featured nothing but raw pointers, you should really give it a second look.
If your last exposure to C++ featured nothing but raw pointers, you should really give it a second look.