On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 00:39:45 -0700 Michael Caisse via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote: MCvB> Please provide in your review whatever information you think is valuable MCvB> to understand your final choice of ACCEPT or REJECT including Beast as a MCvB> Boost library. Please be explicit about your decision. Hello, I'm sorry for lack of details in this review, I really hoped to find more time to look into Beast, but it seems I'm not going to be able to do it before the end of the review period, so I wanted to post a mini-review in the hope that it can be better than nothing. The most important limitation of this review is that I've only looked at and used WebSocket-related parts of it and have only looked superficially at the HTTP part despite the fact that it's the major part of the library. MCvB> - What is your evaluation of the design? IIUC, Beast was designed to be familiar to programmers with knowledge of ASIO and it definitely succeeds in it. Personally, I can't say that I like ASIO API that much, but there is no denying that Beast was much simpler to pick up and start using immediately because it was so close to ASIO conceptually. MCvB> - What is your evaluation of the implementation? I have only glanced at it and so didn't see much, but what I saw looked good. I definitely didn't notice anything wrong. MCvB> - What is your evaluation of the documentation? Documentation is very good. MCvB> - What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? WebSocket part is very useful, I think it's the best current implementation of the WebSocket protocol for C++. I don't have any use for the HTTP part of myself, but I sure hope it could be useful for the creation of future, high(er) level HTTP libraries that I'd love to have. MCvB> - Did you try to use the library? With which compiler(s)? Did you MCvB> have any problems? I did use the library for some tests, in order to decide whether I was going to rewrite an exiting client/server system to use it instead of WebSocket++ (which I finally didn't, but for the reasons that are out of scope of this review). I used it with MSVS 2015 and g++ 6 and didn't have any problems with either. MCvB> - How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick MCvB> reading? In-depth study? A quick reading for the WebSocket part, at most a glance for the HTTP one. I did spend a few hours writing small tests (client/server, sync/async, plain/TLS) using the library. MCvB> - Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain? No, not particularly, I basically just read the RFC 6455, but mostly to just have some idea of what was going on under the hood. I didn't have to really know much about it in order to use Beast, which is a very good thing, of course. To finish this mini (micro?) review, I think that Beast should be accepted into Boost if only for the WebSocket part. It both looks very good to me on its own merits and in comparison with WebSocket++, which is, I think, the only viable alternative for writing cross-platform clients/servers in C++ currently. Thanks a lot to the author for his work and dedication! VZ