Show HN: The Silicon C++14 Web Framework

Re:Show HN: The Silicon C++14 Web Framework by jasode on Monday January 19, 2015 @07:59AM (#8911685)

If the author has seen Facebook proxygen[1] (another C++ http framework), a comparison to it would be helpful.

At first glance, it looks like the Silicon dependency microhttpd is somewhat analogous to proxygen. Is the Silicon value-added proposition the extra layers on top such as auto gen of client-side code, etc?

[1] https://github.com/facebook/proxygen

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Re:Show HN: The Silicon C++14 Web Framework by matt42 on Monday January 19, 2015 @09:00AM (#8911919)

Indeed, Silicon should be seen as a glue between low level http libraries, a message encoding format, others externals resources like databases, and your actual API.

You can use it with microhttpd, or any other network libraries (the current version provides backends to cpp-netlib and mimosa https://github.com/abique/mimosa). Future integration with websocket library is planned.

Don't know much about proxygen but it seems like the goal of the project are similar: Ease the writing of high performance C++ web APIs. However, when reading proxygen echo sample [1], I would say that silicon has a higher level of abstraction.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/tree/master/proxygen/ht...

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