Why on earth are we developing a Node.js-like API in C++?

pagghiu.github.io

https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt is a c++ based ajax/js web api library with lots of interesting functionality. And uses boost for some underlying functionality.

Is there much difference between what they have already accomplished vs what this project is proposing?

I have never used wt so I may be wrong in the following considerations after reading a few of their features and examples.

By giving a quick read, I see that they also have asynchronous IO capability, and this makes it somewhat similar. Not sure about their build times, but knowing Boost I would not expect to be in the 5 seconds range. From what I understand they are tied to be used inside a browser, while we can generate regular desktop UI that also work in browser. I think that UI latency of our method is better than their system, but our approach requires far more computational resources and bandwidth. Their method probably scales better with many users connected.

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