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FWIW, as a Xoogler, I find I can get pretty far with 1) abseil, 2) grpc, 3) protobuf, and 4) groping around in every open source Google project to find the thing I need (for example, until recently, Cord could be found in random projects but not in abseil). I don't know what it's like for ex-bookfaces but this gets me a good way to my goal, and as a bonus I get to use stuff I wasn't able to at G, like C++17, or io_uring, or even jemalloc.

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Outside of google, what other C++ libraries do you think help in writing services in C++. C++ lacks a huge amount of libraries compared to something like java, e.g, I can't even find a half decent http client which handles all the important stuff.

This looks like a good opportunity to make the existing ones a bit better :-)

I don't know. I'd be very squicked out to expose a C++ HTTP client to the big bad world, i.e. as a web crawler. For private use, technically speaking gRPC contains an HTTP client.

More likely I'd fork a process in a safer language and direct it to make HTTP calls.

Boost Beast seems to be pretty robust. Personally, I'd feel fine using it. I know the author Vinnie is very active with the community and very receptive and responsive to bug reports.

I think boost.org is the first place to stop. Boost is often used as a proving ground for future standard libs. The guideline support lib [0] is also another tool. ACE [1] is also another (older) framework that adds a lot. I try and avoid ACE, despite having contributed, there may still be value add, depending on your need.

I've also seen interesting things from Abseil and Folly.

[0] https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines [1]https://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html

> I can't even find a half decent http client which handles all the important stuff.

I'm guessing you don't count cURL as half-decent. Because it's API is C++k let alone idiomatic, modern C++?

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