libwebsockets VS RingSocket

Compare libwebsockets vs RingSocket and see what are their differences.

RingSocket

Highly scalable lockless multi-threaded C11 Linux WebSocket server with backend app plugin API (by meta-word)
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libwebsockets RingSocket
12 1
4,550 34
1.7% -
8.6 4.8
2 days ago 4 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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libwebsockets

Posts with mentions or reviews of libwebsockets. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-08.

RingSocket

Posts with mentions or reviews of RingSocket. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.
  • Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2021
    I wrote something similar, except instead of providing a library (which Libwebsockets already does a fine job of), I created a server/framework accepting shared objects as backend plugins running as dedicated threads interacting with spsc lockless ringbuffers. In other words, more or less the inverse of a library: https://github.com/wbudd/ringsocket

    I haven't been putting much time into it anymore lately, but I intend to create a bunch of language bindings for it soon so you can write plugins in other languages too such as Python, C++, Rust, etc. Should be interesting.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libwebsockets and RingSocket you can also consider the following projects:

WebSocket++ - C++ websocket client/server library

µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications

libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

Boost.Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

Mongoose - Embedded Web Server

C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.

libdatachannel - C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets

IXWebSocket - websocket and http client and server library, with TLS support and very few dependencies

POCO - The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.

RESTinio - Cross-platform, efficient, customizable, and robust asynchronous HTTP(S)/WebSocket server C++ library with the right balance between performance and ease of use

libhttpserver - C++ library for creating an embedded Rest HTTP server (and more)

ulfius - Web Framework to build REST APIs, Webservices or any HTTP endpoint in C language. Can stream large amount of data, integrate JSON data with Jansson, and create websocket services