Making portable code

Question

With all the fuss about opensource projects, how come there is still not a strong standard that enables you to make portable code (I mean in C/C++ not Java or C#) Everyone is kind of making it's own soup.

There are even some third party libs like Apache Portable Runtime.

Answer 1

Yes, there is no standard but libraries like Qt and boost can make your life much easier when you do cross-platform development.

Answer 2

wxwidgets is a great abstraction layer on the native GUI widgets of most window managers.