对于学习曲线和初学者的适合性（HTTP客户端），提升vs POCO

Question

which library would you advise me to use? I don't know any of these libraries. I heard, that Boost is very often used but also it's hard to code in.

So to make this question as objective as possible: Just simply from the aspect of beginner programmer (I've coded ~1000 LOC in C++ in my life) which library would be better to learn?

I'll be using it mainly for HTTP client.

Answer 1

The answer is bound to be subjective but with particular emphasis on for a beginner then I think POCO is clearly the way to go. It actually has some HTTPClient classes and once you get beyond the point of being happy that something works the code is clear enough to follow so that you can dig in and understand why it works if that is where things lead you.

POCO is well written OOP code and does not require much in the way of understanding templates and such. The classes are well integrated with one another, extensive, and the documentation more or less points you to the next (or previous) class that you need. You won't be dashing around 20 separate libs as Boost is likely to have you doing. (There is always time for that later!)