libws
A non-blocking WebSocket (RFC 6455) implementation in C (by osen)
wic
WebSockets in C for Embedded Applications (by cjhdev)
| libws | wic | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 3 | 66 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 4 years ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
libws
Posts with mentions or reviews of libws.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-14.
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Transport agnostic Websocket library
I kind of did that to create my own library (server only): https://github.com/osen/libws/tree/master/src/ws
- Anyone tried socket programming in C?
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secure client-server communication
Whilst certainly not the best example you might want to check out this: https://github.com/osen/libws/blob/master/src/ws/SslSocket.c
wic
Posts with mentions or reviews of wic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-14.
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Transport agnostic Websocket library
https://github.com/cjhdev/wic Almost ideal, but lacks thorough testing and has some perf issues
What are some alternatives?
When comparing libws and wic you can also consider the following projects:
MotorMC - MotorMC is a blazing fast, multi threaded, asynchronous Minecraft server software that aims to handle many players (1000+) on a single world while still providing an experience as close to vanilla Minecraft as possible.
Crow - A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web.
phylab - A platform to teach students physics concepts
tinygl - The penultimate portable graphics library
websockify-other - Assorted ports of websockify code to other languages
libdatachannel - C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets
wslay - The WebSocket library in C