C++ REST SDK VS VulkanExamples

My favourite was Microsoft's cpprestsdk, but for some reason now is in maintenance mode, I don't know why, so it's hard to suggest it for new projects. A nice alternative is restc-cpp, that's has a good high-level interface, if this is what you want.

CppRestSDK is deprecated.

https://github.com/microsoft/cpprestsdk (concerned about being maintenance mode -> production?)

While it's not based on Boost Asio or Beast, Microsoft maintains a SDK for developing REST api's using C++, aptly named the C++ REST SDK. Here you can find the Github page. It pretty much covers everything you'd come to expect from a modern webserver package. It does come with a steep learning curve however.

I never thought I'd laud microsoft on open source software but this has certainly made my life easier... I mean come on, MIT licensed and everything...

https://github.com/microsoft/cpprestsdk

Assuming you want to make a REST API check this out: https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk

>But is it truly practical to use in 'higher-abstraction' apps like web or mobile?

Yes absolutely. Once you become familiar with the language the barrier is not that high. Familiarity trumps everything else.

That said, since i am not a Web/mobile developer i had collected some resources to help me learn how to use C++ for Web/Mobile apps, you may find it useful;

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/cross-platform-mobile-and-w...

https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk

https://medium.com/@ivan.mejia/modern-c-micro-service-implem...

I was starting a project that needs to read data with rest API and I'd like to use cpprestsdk from Microsoft. But it's readme says that's in maintenance mode and it's not recommended for new projects... I'd like to know why it's in maintenance mode, and if it will be abandoned. Also, if there's some equivalent library for cpp, instead of creating the business logic from scratch, i.e. with boost::beast.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.11) project(my_project LANGUAGES CXX VERSION 1.0 ) include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare( glfw GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/glfw/glfw" GIT_TAG dd8a678a66f1967372e5a5e3deac41ebf65ee127 ) message("Fetching glfw...") FetchContent_MakeAvailable(glfw) FetchContent_Declare( vulkan GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp" GIT_TAG 429c4c522c65d10ec6df4633a1b78fc28aca7dc3 ) message("Fetching vulkan") FetchContent_MakeAvailable(vulkan) add_executable(my_project src/main.cpp) target_link_libraries(my_project PRIVATE glfw) target_link_libraries(my_project PRIVATE vulkan)

The second sample comes from NVIDIA. It shows a transcoded version of the API sample, High Dynamic Range, and illustrated the usage of the C++ binding of Vulkan provided by Vulkan.hpp. Sample - https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/tree/master/samples/api/hpp_hdr Vulkan.hpp - https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp

or https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Hpp which help quite a bit. Or https://github.com/VcDevel/std-simd.

If you want GUIs, same, you have at least (but not only) Qt or WxWidgets.

Want to interface scripting? Pybind11, Boost.Python, WrenBind17 for Wren, Sol2 for Lua... and all things that interface to C work also if you feel brave...

I really think that when it is about getting the job done... C++ goes a long way towards the task.

This is my 20 year experience of C++, almost 13 of those years professionally. Now, back to read the paper. :)

If you're not a complete beginner, the vulkan.hpp version of Sascha Willems' samples is out of date, you could contribute some updated examples. You'd get a decent overview of various Vulkan features and become familiar with both the C and C++ APIs.

I don't have a cheat sheet but I do have a repository with a bunch of examples that use the C++ api https://github.com/jherico/vulkan