Mongoose VS xHTTP

I've found myself at this webpage multiple times while trying to minimize the complexity of APIs in my C projects.

My conclusion for now is that C coroutines are something to be left to the implementer. For example: Mongoose (https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose) uses event callbacks to deal with asynchronousness. It is much more pleasant to wrap a library like this in whatever thread/task primitives your system has rather than try to integrate the mythical cross-platform c couroutine.

I remember using mongoose 15 years back. Today i would have considered mongoose(10k+ stars) which is also a mature c/c++ web server[1] if not the licence.

https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/tree/master/examples

Alternatives at the low to medium level of abstraction include civetweb and mongoose, which have a common ancestor. Both of these appear to be C rather than C++, but seem to be production quality and well-documented. Another C library is cpp-httplib, which is probably too low-level for me.

Since this is only going to be used internally would Mongoose be worth considering?

Here’s an example: https://mongoose.ws/

If you are looking for something simple there is mongoose from cesanta, https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose

If you want to make it better but aren't interest in that much programming, you may be interested in super minimal http servers like httpserver.h or xhttp (I wrote this!) which match exactly this use case.

Just today it occurred to me that I could ask you guys!! Can you rate my skills as a programmer? I'd love to have your opinions. I have some of my favourite projects on github. The more noteworthy are: * Noja, an interpreter for a simple programming language I designed * xHTTP, an HTTP 1.1 web server library in a single c file * c2html, a tool to generate an html syntax highlighted version of C code

Also, if any of you have any feedback or questions, i'd be happy to have a discussion! The repository is hosted on GitHub.