Common needs

Here are some needs that many developers have, in no particular order:

• Database connection, reading, and writing
• CSV file processing
• Compression, for example, gzip
• Date/time enhancements
• Various computations, for example: matrices, imaginary numbers, math equation solving, and so on
• UI, for desktop and mobile applications
• HTTP client
• HTTP server
• Asynchronous programming
• Image processing
• PDF processing
• Background jobs
• Cryptography
• Networking
• Serialization
• Email sending
• JSON processing
• Configuration file read and write: ini, yaml, and so on

It’s safe to say that there are C++ libraries for all of these. Let’s pick just a few random ones:

• zlib for zip and gzip compression
• Rapidcsv (https://github.com/d99kris/rapidcsv) for CSV processing
• For database access, an ORM such as TinyORM (https://www.tinyorm.org/) or SQLPP1 (https://github.com/rbock/sqlpp11) for type-safe...