I haven't done work in C/C++ for a little bit and was just wondering what people's favorite cross platform libraries are to use. I'm looking for something that is a good quick and dirty library as well as a library that is a little more robust. Often those are two different libraries and that's okay.

Aggregated List of Libraries Boost.Asio is really good. Asio is also available as a stand-alone library. ACE is also good, a bit more mature and has a couple of books to support it. C++ Network Library POCO Qt Raknet ZeroMQ (C++) nanomsg (C Library) nng (C Library) Berkeley Sockets libevent Apache APR yield Winsock2(Windows only) wvstreams zeroc libcurl libuv (Cross-platform C library) SFML's Network Module C++ Rest SDK (Casablanca) RCF Restbed (HTTP Asynchronous Framework) SedNL SDL_net OpenSplice|DDS facil.io (C, with optional HTTP and Websockets, Linux / BSD / macOS) GLib Networking grpc from Google GameNetworkingSockets from Valve CYSockets To do easy things in the easiest way yojimbo GGPO ENet SLikeNet is a fork of Raknet netcode photon is closed source, requires license to use their sdk crossplatform network - open source non blocking metatemplate framework built on top of boost asio

Best C/C++ Network Library

Aggregated List of Libraries

Boost.Asio is really good.
Asio is also available as a stand-alone library.
ACE is also good, a bit more mature and has a couple of books to support it.
C++ Network Library
POCO
Qt
Raknet
ZeroMQ (C++)
nanomsg (C Library)
nng (C Library)
Berkeley Sockets
libevent
Apache APR
yield
Winsock2(Windows only)
wvstreams
zeroc
libcurl
libuv (Cross-platform C library)
SFML's Network Module
C++ Rest SDK (Casablanca)
RCF
Restbed (HTTP Asynchronous Framework)
SedNL
SDL_net
OpenSplice|DDS
facil.io (C, with optional HTTP and Websockets, Linux / BSD / macOS)
GLib Networking
grpc from Google
GameNetworkingSockets from Valve
CYSockets To do easy things in the easiest way
yojimbo
GGPO
ENet
SLikeNet is a fork of Raknet
netcode
photon is closed source, requires license to use their sdk
crossplatform network - open source non blocking metatemplate framework built on top of boost asio

Best C/C++ Network Library

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