Re: Capy and Corosio review

Steve Gerbino via Boost <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:23:38 +0000
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On Friday, July 3rd, 2026 at 8:44 PM, Marcelo Zimbres Silva via Boost <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, but it is important to notice that Corosio competes with Asio and
> increases the ecosystem fragmentation.  This is not a Capy/Corosio
> fault and there is precedent for competing libraries in Boost, but it
> really hurts the overall C++ software quality, for example, when your
> http client uses one net lib, the database driver another and so on.
> Perhaps soon there will be a senders and receiver based net lib.
> Libraries aren't likely to support all net variations natively and
> interop will be more likely.
> 
> > 9. Are there API, naming, usability, extensibility, or implementation concerns that should be addressed?
> 
> I vote ACCEPT.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcelo

Thank you for taking the time to review Capy/Corosio and for providing some insight in to the performance against similar libraries.
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