Silicon vs WebSocket++

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Silicon		WebSocket++
	Project
-	Mentions	5
1,725	Stars	6,745
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	10 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.

WebSocket++

Posts with mentions or reviews of WebSocket++. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.

How to include third-party libraries using meson build system?
1 project | /r/cpp | 16 Sep 2022

The third-party library that I am trying to include is websocketpp using the meson build system. The library already has a CMakeLists.txt, however it does not have a meson.build file, so how can iInclude cmake projects?
Boost Beast vs Boost Asio TCP for websocket
1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 24 Jun 2022

Another option is Websocketpp which can use asio for network transport: https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp
Request for a websocket library
2 projects | /r/cpp | 25 Mar 2022

1) websocketpp : https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp
How and where I can learn about Web sockets, APIs, Wrappers to connect with my C++ code?
4 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 19 Apr 2021

Learning how to use this library is probably your best bet: https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp
Market Streaming With Polygon and C++
1 project | /r/algotrading | 11 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Silicon and WebSocket++ 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.

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

Proxygen - A collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server.

libwebsockets - canonical libwebsockets.org networking library

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

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

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

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