Forwarding to the list: Received 1:19 AM my time... still July 10th in Hawaii ... and I'm still up reading Beast reviews so it seems good enough for me. Thanks for the review! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [boost][beast] (In)formal review From: Rüdiger Berlich ------------------------------------------- Dear Michael, dear Vinnie, having read the very lively discussion during the review, I am not sure I can add much to the technical side. Please feel free to either count this voice or leave it out, as you see fit, particularly as this mail didn’t come in time for the formal review. Hence I am sending this as PM. In my own applications, I limit myself to Boost as an external dependency. Having Websocket-functionality as part of Boost (the „pure“ HTML-side is of less significance to me) would be a god-send and would save me countless hours, allowing me to focus more on what I’m good at. Currently I just build directly on ASIO. I feel that Beast fills a very big niche and, having followed the development of the library for a while now, I am also confident that it is sufficiently advanced to be included into Boost. Thus, from a mere user’s perspective, I’d like to strongly vote in favor of ACCEPT. ============== - What is your evaluation of the design? I have worked with ASIO for a while and appreciate that Beast follows the same principles. - What is your evaluation of the implementation? I have browsed though some of the code and feel that it is well structured and certainly easier to read than some of the other Boost-code I have come across - What is your evaluation of the documentation? Beast does not intend to be a high-level library, and for the intended audience, the documentation is well-designed and complete. I would hope that, if and when Beast becomes part of Boost, there’ll be more tutorial-like information similar to what Boris Schaeling does in his books (e.g. here: https://theboostcpplibraries.com — could well become part of that). - What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? Immense. C++ is lacking a LOT of functionality on the library side, and this is one of the essential building blocks needed by people intending to create the higher-level libraries. I believe that we will see many new library proposals on top of Beast. - Did you try to use the library? With which compiler(s)? Did you have any problems? I have followed the development of Beast for a number of months and have „played“ with it in different contexts. I am in the process of integrating it into my own (client-server type application). In comparison to other libraries, it seems to be much more vivid and fast-paced. I have used it on MacOS and Linux (—> clang and g++). - How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick reading? In-depth study? No in-depth study, but in summary there is certainly more than a day of involvement. - Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain? Having done quite a bit of „do it yourself“ on top of ASIO for my own application, I appreciate what Beast can do for me (on the Websocket side) and am in dire need of this functionality. As a library-USER, I actually do not intend to be an expert for the implementation side and would be very thankful if it became available as part of Boost. I’d like to thank Vinnie for the huge amount of work that went into Beast and the Boost-community for the superb collection of libraries that have kept C++ alive. Kind Regards, Beet P.S.: I do not like the name „Beast“, but do not think it is important. Certainly this is up to the author to decide :-)