Lift vs Wt

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Lift		Wt
	Project
3	Mentions	41
1,266	Stars	1,636
0.2%	Growth	2.0%
0.0	Activity	8.9
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
Scala	Language	C
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

Lift

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lift. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-15.

Replacing Play+Akka with another tech-stack in Scala
2 projects | /r/scala | 15 Sep 2022

Lift framework is another scala web framework, which has its own actors implementation and long history. It is helpful, but I can't say it is highly maintained nowadays. Also, Lift was an opponent of Play some time ago.
Back-end languages are coming to the front-end
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2022
#2 Risin' Newsletter
6 projects | dev.to | 28 Nov 2021

https://liftweb.net/ Author: David Pollak and contributors

Wt

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.

What C++ library do you wish existed but hasn’t been created yet?
18 projects | /r/cpp | 8 Jul 2023

Take a look at Wt Webtoolkit. It can do exactly this (and a lot more) https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
Nui C++ User Interface Library
4 projects | /r/cpp | 2 Jun 2023

How does this compare with WebToolkit?
Has anyone embedded a web-UI into a C++ project?
5 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 19 Mar 2023
Cheerp 3.0: The most advanced C++ compiler for the Web now permissively licensed
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2023

How is this much different than wt [1] or compiling qt to emscripten? Sincere question.
[1] https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python
25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2023
The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2023

Not posting to prove you wrong but simply because related.
> Wt is a web GUI library in modern C++. Quickly develop highly interactive web UIs with widgets, without having to write a single line of JavaScript. Wt handles all request handling and page rendering for you, so you can focus on functionality.
https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23812791
Uses of Rust and C++ that only one has?
2 projects | /r/rust | 29 Nov 2022
Why are all web development frameworks are for high-end languages
1 project | /r/webdev | 30 Oct 2022
Who is using C++ for web development?
12 projects | /r/cpp | 4 Oct 2022

https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt (has support for HTTP/S)
Please advise me a c++ web framework.
1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 30 Sep 2022

Wt is a pretty cool framework: https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Lift and Wt you can also consider the following projects:

Play - The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.

Crow - Crow is very fast and easy to use C++ micro web framework (inspired by Python Flask)

Scalatra - Tiny Scala high-performance, async web framework, inspired by Sinatra

TreeFrog Framework - TreeFrog Framework : High-speed C++ MVC Framework for Web Application

youi - Next generation user interface and application development in Scala and Scala.js for web, mobile, and desktop.

CppCMS - CppCMS Framework

Reactive - A simple FRP library and a web UI framework built on it

drogon - Drogon: A C++14/17 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows [Moved to: https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon]

Colossus - I/O and Microservice library for Scala

Oat++ - 🌱Light and powerful C++ web framework for highly scalable and resource-efficient web application. It's zero-dependency and easy-portable.

Finatra - Fast, testable, Scala services built on TwitterServer and Finagle

Cutelyst - A C++ Web Framework built on top of Qt, using the simple approach of Catalyst (Perl) framework.