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• Connecting to Bluetooth using C++
  3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 5 Sep 2021

  If you decide on directly using the lower-level Winsock2 API, you aren't really going to get much out of the official Microsoft documentation; it's pretty lacking, as you have noted. Instead, I suggest taking a look at the Network Socket Terminal source code (Disclosure: I'm the author of the software). Specifically, these sections:

• Is cpp your most important language? Have you learned other language that is more important to you now?
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 27 Aug 2021

  I'm currently using C++ for a network communication app. The language's predecessor, C, has had a long, distinguished history in computer programming, and thus it has many APIs written for it. In networking, for example, you have POSIX sockets and Winsock. C++, being a superset of C, allows you to directly call these APIs in your code (and there have been C++-exclusive network implementations as well, such as Boost.Asio and the upcoming C++23 Net TS). This gives you a lot of flexibility over what you want to do, as well as how you want to do it. Other high-level languages, such as Python and Java, may also have similar capabilities, but they're basically just using C/C++ internally. Occasionally, those language bindings might not even be enough - Java, for instance, doesn't have a remotely good Bluetooth implementation (while you can use Winsock/BlueZ in C/C++).