Ryan Twomey

Ever wanted to write a web app in C++?  Now you can - using Wt.

Wt (pronounced ‘witty’) is a C++ library and application server for developing and deploying web applications. It is not a ‘framework’, which enforces a way of programming, but a library.

I’m impressed with how they handle events - it’s similar to the Qt-style signals/slots method, which I think is an intuitive, powerful way to handle callbacks in C++.  I’m particularly intrigued about using this for somewhat complex, high-throughput applications such as DB-intensive web apps where scaling using traditional means (i.e. caching) doesn’t yield enough performance increase.