Facebook has released a collection of open-source code libraries that should ease the process of getting C++ programs to communicate over the Internet

“We’re hoping it will make it easier for people to build applications that need to provide services with HTTP,” said Facebook engineering director Blake Matheny, referring to the protocol that serves as the basis for most Web data communications. “The libraries will make it easier for people to use HTTP as a base transport.”

The library, called Proxygen, could also help Internet-facing organizations prepare for the next-generation Internet data communications protocol, HTTP/2.

“Even if they are not using C++, anybody who is following modern protocol development like HTTP/2, we are hoping they could look at Proxygen as a reference design,” Matheny said.

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