Platform Independent C++ OS Library?

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 11, 2009 @07:20AM from the one-to-rule-them-all dept.

quench writes "Hello! I have been away from Windows and Linux application software for 5 years or so, doing mainly C-like embedded C++ programming. Now, I am about to start a project emulating embedded hardware on Windows. Been there, doing #ifdef WIN32 and #ifdef LINUX stuff, don't really want to go there any more. What I actually need is a platform independent lib covering Windows and Linux variants to handle sockets, IPC and threads abstractions. And a rock solid but simple embedded database to emulate flash memory. My reflex said, go for ACE and Berkeley-DB. Tell me, am I out of time? Am I missing something new and trendy, easier to use and better? Did time stand still?"

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Re:Boost? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-11 08:26 · Score: 0, Troll

Avoid Boost. Cross Platform: no. Well Tested: absolutely not.
Re:Unfortunately probably not worth it by binarylarry · 2009-10-11 09:36 · Score: 1, Troll

Java uses native thread exclusively. Anything you can do in C++ with threads, you can do faster and safer in Java.
Python has no ability to uses threads in a practical sense, due to Python GIL.

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