Summary
This episode addresses the absence of networking in the C++20 and C++23 standards, providing a comprehensive overview of available third-party networking libraries for C++ developers. Jason surveys multiple categories of networking solutions including general-purpose libraries (ASIO, Poco, ACE), HTTP/REST frameworks (cpprestsdk, Pistache), WebSocket libraries, message passing systems (ZeroMQ, gRPC), and higher-level wrappers (cpr for libcurl). He emphasizes the importance of using package managers like Conan, vcpkg, or Hunter to simplify dependency management.