20NETWORK PROGRAMMING WITH BOOST ASIO
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true, and the tendency to miss lunch.—Tim Berners-Lee
Boost Asio is a library for low-level I/O programming. In this chapter, you’ll learn about Boost Asio’s basic networking facilities, which enable programs to interact easily and efficiently with network resources. Unfortunately, the stdlib doesn’t contain a network-programming library as of C++17. For this reason, Boost Asio plays a central role in many C++ programs with a networking component.
Although Boost Asio is the primary choice for ...
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