>>19 ("So wait, remind me what is wrong with 3rd party libraries ?")
Licenses. Either you use a Microsoft compiler (first party, proprietary libraries, non-free GUI compiler) or you face telling your manager that he has to pay for a QT license or whatever else it is that some company created because the standard is too lazy to add stuff that is worth our while. Look at Java's HUEG as in xbox libraries. If C standardized even a quarter of those, we wouldn't have java fanboi-ism, because we could do all the stuff it does without the speed trade-off.
3rd party stuff and licenses cost your job money. And cost you expensive books on training every time the company retools the library or dies.