ZeroMQ VS cppzmq

Slightly OT:

Are ZeroMQ and NanoMQ still widely used (and recommended)?

https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq

https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq

Remarkable, up until recently, requests for a new release were sumewhat brusquely rejected and marked as spam.

https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/4455

I wonder what made the maintainer change his mind.

FP Libraries: gRPC, ZeroMQ, and AREG are examples of libraries with a special focus on providing possibilities for Interprocess Communication. Developed using C++, they facilitate communication through predefined APIs, emphasizing functional programming concepts.

Unlikely, but they seem to be different things altogether. BlazingMQ appears to be a traditional message queue (think ActiveMQ), with message peristence. ZeroMQ is more of a network middleware (think Tibco Rendezvous), and does not include persistence.

BlazingMQ also appears to be more of a "platform" or "service" that an app can use (sort of like Oracle, say) -- ZeroMQ includes libraries that one can use to build an app, service or platform, but none is provided "out of the box".

Which makes it harder to get started with ZeroMQ, since by definition every ZeroMQ app is essentially built "from scratch".

If you're interested in ZeroMQ, you may want to check out OZ (https://github.com/nyfix/OZ), which is a Rendezvous-like platform that uses the OpenMAMA API (https://github.com/finos/OpenMAMA) and ZeroMQ (https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq) transport to provide a full-featured network middleware implementation. OZ has been used in our shop since 2020 handling approx 50MM high-value messages per day on our global FIX network.

-- Using src='https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/releases/download/v4.3.4/zeromq-4.3.4.tar.gz'

Just check copying file in source repo https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq

I think the situation is more subtle than the poster admits.

No, ZeroMQ and successors do not tell you about socket state. You can't detect disconnection or reconnection. But then if a TCP connection fails in some way that does not lead to disconnection (packets getting dropped, remote machine powers down), it can't possibly tell you about that either, but you still need to deal with it. So in any case, you need some sort of application-level error detection and recovery; you need heartbeats, and serial numbers in messages, and a protocol for explicitly restarting a connection and performing the initial handshake. And once you have that, explicit connection events from ZeroMQ are much less important.

Admittedly, given that this is a TCP transport, reporting reconnections would still be useful, because TCP won't ever drop messages from the interior of a sequence itself (if it delivers 15, it has delivered 1 - 14 already), so you shouldn't need the serial numbers.

And if it's really not possible to detect authentication failures, than that seems rubbish. And it seems that is indeed the case: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/3505

From https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq

I found that I knew almost nothing about C++ and had to start reading and watching tutorials to understand what was happening in the code samples provided. In the end, I just followed the C++ SDK programming manual and managed to capture the image data with the provided library and source code and display it with OpenCV. But even though this manual made it possible to display the video images, I am still very confused about the implementation of the member functions of the provided classes. And since I want to share the image data with a Python script, I need to understand exactly what is happening. Since I couldn't find any simple enough resources on shared memory, I tried sending the image data over sockets using the ZeroMQ library library called cppzmq.

Maybe I am not understanding it correctly, the https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq is GPL v3, and header only file is https://github.com/zeromq/cppzmq MIT license? So I can use the header only library and I don't need to open source my code?