Silicon vs Proxygen

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Silicon		Proxygen
	Project
-	Mentions	7
1,725	Stars	8,025
-	Growth	0.5%
0.0	Activity	9.2
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
C++	Language	C++
MIT License	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.

Silicon

Posts with mentions or reviews of Silicon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Silicon yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Proxygen

Posts with mentions or reviews of Proxygen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.

Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024

Looking forward to the time when Meta will make https://github.com/facebookincubator/zstrong.git public
found it mentioned in https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/blob/main/build/fbcode_..., looks like it's going to be cousin of zstd, but maybe for the stronger compression use cases
Nghttp3 1.0.0 – HTTP/3 library written in C
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2023
Zap – fast back ends in Zig
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2023
C++ (or C, I guess) application server that's QUIC/HTTP3 ready?
4 projects | /r/cpp | 29 Jun 2022
kleinsHTTP: A stupid stupidly simple HTTP Server
6 projects | /r/cpp | 21 Aug 2021

proxygen claims to support all 3, although I'm still not sure if it's an actual library or just an interface.
cpprestsdk in maintenance mode
17 projects | /r/cpp | 8 Jun 2021

If you need an embedded C++ HTTP server then there are plenty of libraries/frameworks (in random order): Crow, RESTinio, Boost.Beast, cpp-httplib, http_backend, Pistache, RestBed, served, proxygen, Simple-Web-Server, drogon, oat++.
Experiments with h3 clients + Envoy
8 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2021

proxygen/hq

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Silicon and Proxygen you can also consider the following projects:

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.

cpr - C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.

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

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.

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

Simple-WebSocket-Server

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

nghttp2 - nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools

Restbed - Corvusoft's Restbed framework brings asynchronous RESTful functionality to C++14 applications.

Mongoose - Embedded Web Server