Silicon alternatives and similar libraries

Based on the "Networking" category.
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libcurl

9.8 9.9 L2 Silicon VS libcurl

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
Muduo

9.6 4.1 L4 Silicon VS Muduo

Event-driven network library for multi-threaded Linux server in C++11

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uWebSockets

9.5 8.6 Silicon VS uWebSockets

Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications
KCP

9.5 0.0 Silicon VS KCP

:zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol
µWebSockets

9.4 Silicon VS µWebSockets

Tiny WebSockets
Mongoose

9.3 0.0 L3 Silicon VS Mongoose

Embedded Web Server
C++ Workflow

9.3 7.9 Silicon VS C++ Workflow

C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Engine
cpp-httplib

9.2 0.0 Silicon VS cpp-httplib

A C++ header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library
POCO

9.1 6.1 L2 Silicon VS POCO

The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.
Proxygen

9.1 9.7 L4 Silicon VS Proxygen

A collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server.
C++ REST SDK

9.0 0.0 L1 Silicon VS C++ REST SDK

The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.
WebSocket++

8.9 0.0 L2 Silicon VS WebSocket++

C++ websocket client/server library
libwebsockets

8.4 0.0 L2 Silicon VS libwebsockets

canonical libwebsockets.org networking library
cpr

8.4 5.4 L2 Silicon VS cpr

C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.
RakNet

8.3 0.0 Silicon VS RakNet

RakNet is a cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine for game programmers.
nghttp2

8.2 0.0 L1 Silicon VS nghttp2

nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools
evpp

8.1 0.0 Silicon VS evpp

A modern C++ network library for developing high performance network services in TCP/UDP/HTTP protocols.
boost.beast(new repo)

8.0 0.0 Silicon VS boost.beast(new repo)

HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11
Boost.Beast

8.0 0.0 Silicon VS Boost.Beast

HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11
Simple-Web-Server

7.7 0.0 L4 Silicon VS Simple-Web-Server

A very simple, fast, multithreaded, platform independent HTTP and HTTPS server and client library implemented using C++11 and Boost.Asio. Created to be an easy way to make REST resources available from C++ applications.
wdt

7.6 4.2 Silicon VS wdt

Warp speed Data Transfer (WDT) is an embeddedable library (and command line tool) aiming to transfer data between 2 systems as fast as possible over multiple TCP paths.
PcapPlusPlus

7.4 0.0 Silicon VS PcapPlusPlus

PcapPlusPlus is a multiplatform C++ library for capturing, parsing and crafting of network packets. It is designed to be efficient, powerful and easy to use. It provides C++ wrappers for the most popular packet processing engines such as libpcap, Npcap, WinPcap, DPDK and PF_RING.
cpp-netlib

7.1 0.0 L2 Silicon VS cpp-netlib

The C++ Network Library Project -- cross-platform, standards compliant networking library.
netcode.io

6.9 0.0 Silicon VS netcode.io

A protocol for secure client/server connections over UDP
Restbed

6.9 0.0 L4 Silicon VS Restbed

Corvusoft's Restbed framework brings asynchronous RESTful functionality to C++14 applications.
Onion

6.8 0.0 L4 Silicon VS Onion

C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.
libquic

6.7 0.0 Silicon VS libquic

QUIC, a multiplexed stream transport over UDP
Dyad.c

6.2 0.0 L3 Silicon VS Dyad.c

Asynchronous networking for C
dotenv-linter

6.1 0.0 Silicon VS dotenv-linter

⚡️Lightning-fast linter for .env files. Written in Rust 🦀
Simple-WebSocket-Server

5.7 0.0 L4 Silicon VS Simple-WebSocket-Server

A very simple, fast, multithreaded, platform independent WebSocket (WS) and WebSocket Secure (WSS) server and client library implemented using C++11, Boost.Asio and OpenSSL. Created to be an easy way to make WebSocket endpoints in C++.
RESTinio

5.3 0.0 Silicon VS RESTinio

Cross-platform, efficient, customizable, and robust asynchronous HTTP/WebSocket server C++14 library with the right balance between performance and ease of use
libhttpserver

5.3 0.0 Silicon VS libhttpserver

C++ library for creating an embedded Rest HTTP server (and more)
Tufão

5.0 0.0 L2 Silicon VS Tufão

An asynchronous web framework for C++ built on top of Qt
D++

4.9 9.1 Silicon VS D++

C++ Discord API Bot Library - D++ is Lightweight and scalable for small and huge bots!
curlcpp

4.8 0.0 Silicon VS curlcpp

An object oriented C++ wrapper for CURL (libcurl)
Seasocks

4.8 0.0 Silicon VS Seasocks

Simple, small, C++ embeddable webserver with WebSockets support
nope.c

4.7 0.0 L1 Silicon VS nope.c

WAFer is a C language-based software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications. Think node.js for C programmers.
net_skeleton

4.6 0.0 L3 Silicon VS net_skeleton

Async non-blocking multi-protocol networking library for C/C++
verdigris

4.4 0.0 Silicon VS verdigris

Qt without moc: set of macros to use Qt without needing moc
IXWebSocket

4.2 0.0 Silicon VS IXWebSocket

websocket and http client and server library, with TLS support and very few dependencies
netLink

3.4 0.0 L1 Silicon VS netLink

Socket and Networking Library using msgpack.org[C++11]
Boost.Http

3.4 0.0 Silicon VS Boost.Http

Embeddable C++ HTTP server
bredis

3.0 0.0 Silicon VS bredis

Boost::ASIO low-level redis client (connector)
tntnet

2.7 0.0 L1 Silicon VS tntnet

Tntnet is a web application server for web applications written in C++.
nanoMODBUS

2.7 0.0 Silicon VS nanoMODBUS

A compact MODBUS RTU/TCP C library for embedded/microcontrollers
Breep

2.6 0.0 Silicon VS Breep

C++ peer to peer library, built on the top of boost
QuantumGate

2.5 0.0 Silicon VS QuantumGate

QuantumGate is a peer-to-peer (P2P) communications protocol, library and API written in C++.
Barracuda App Server

1.9 0.0 Silicon VS Barracuda App Server

Embedded Web Server Library with Integrated Scripting Engine
NetIF

1.5 5.2 Silicon VS NetIF

Header-only C++14 library for getting addresses associated with network interfaces without name lookups on Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD
LiteNetLib++

1.2 10.0 Silicon VS LiteNetLib++

C++ lightweight and easy to use reliable UDP library for games