What network messaging library do you recommend?

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  • comms_champion

    C++(11) library to implement and tools to monitor binary communication protocols

    If this is the case, for the third stage of the application specific protocol handling I recommend CommsChampion Ecosystem.

  • tcp_pubsub

    📦 TCP based publish-subscribe library for C++ 🌐 (by eclipse-ecal)

    If you want a fairly low level pub/sub like messaging over TCP, take a look at the tcp_pubsub library. It basically does what you're looking for.

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  • ZeroMQ

    ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1

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

  • Aeron

    Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

  • GameNetworkingSockets

    Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP. Robust message fragmentation & reassembly. P2P networking / NAT traversal. Encryption.

    You can also try Valve's GameNetworkingSockets with a serialization of your choice.

  • paho.mqtt.cpp

    For me personally, I've been using MQTT alot with Paho MQTT C++

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