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# cplusplus-htmx
  • m
    welcome @jolly-toddler-71191!
  • m
  • m
    from the #909436816388669530
  • j
    Great! Many thanks!
  • t
    This channel is your responsibility now, raise it with care
  • l
    Man... and "htmx++" was right there... smh
  • l
    Jokes aside - how prevalent is server-side C++? I can see how it would be a nice choice (should be really fast and efficient), but I hadn't heard of it since I knew of some folks writing IIS modules.
  • j
    The later C++ standards made many things much easier to handle. Memory management (smart pointers), range support, lambdas (functional programming), string handling + formatting.
  • j
    The framework I'm using in the example project above is Drogon, and it doesn't need IIS or Apache to run. You program the web server itself.
  • j
    But Drogon is fairly complex and needs a bit of work to wire everything up. In the end, it's a true web server. And I am only touching a few simple parts of it. Drogon is much bigger.
  • j
    I'm thinking about writing another article with accompanying project, but this time with a smaller web server behind. Maybe something like "Crow": https://github.com/CrowCpp/Crow
  • l
    Cool - I appreciate the information. I'll definitely read up on them!
  • a
    With CGI anything can be a programming language for web
  • j
    Yes, that's true. A bit sad, that the previously diverse world of web development got so narrow.
  • j
    We sacrificed performance, flexibility, memory consumption, and hypermedia itself.
  • a
    https://learnbchs.org/ there's this (semi-joke?) stack. Although I kinda don't agree with putting sqlite into a separate process, that kills half of the reason to use sqlite 🙂
  • j
    Yes, I read about it some time ago. If I correctly remember, the guy uses OpenBSD.
  • j
    20 years ago I was a big fan of this excellent OS.
  • j
    Their packet filter was awesome (and sure still is).
  • j
    So, the other C++ web server, Crow, is working fine.
  • j
    Proof!
  • j
    It relies heavily on boost libraries, but there is a way to include only the things one really needs.
  • j
    I compiled it on my Mac and will try later the same with Windows.
  • j
    The nice thing with Crow is that it supports "mustache" templating.
  • j
    Here's the source code. I tested it under macOS and Windows. It supports SSL by default (self-signed certificates are included). https://github.com/brakmic/htmx_server
  • l
  • l
    > Life is too short for user-hostile software.
  • a
    nice to see c++ in the list 😮