Wt, C++ Web Toolkit

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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’ve found myself a new toy :) . No more php or C# or ASP or other things i don’t like to use but i have to use. I haven’t yet started to use Wt, but looks nice. Like it or not the web-app is competing really well with the native-app, at least from the desktop user’s point of view. It would be nice to have a way of writing web apps with things like type safety, generic code and most important reusing libraries like boost.

From the first look at the Wt code i looks somehow familiar, maybe because I’ve used Qt a lot and the Wt’s slot/signal mechanism seems similar.

A C++ library that allows creation of a web graphical interface by using widgets rather than hand written html. Sounds wonderful. I can only hope it will raise up to the expectations.

More after a play with it.

details at: http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/

  • Alex Pintea

    Hello! Do you have some news regarding the using of WT library? What do you think about it? Is it easy to be implemented to a payed shared web host? Thanks in advance!

  • http://www.erata.net eti

    Hi,

    Personally I’ve moved to the .NET and C# world so i haven’t played with Wt/C++ for quite some time… but from the Wt website it seems that the latest release is dated March 26, 2010 which means that they are still active and that they have quite a history with the project.

    To be honest reading their website makes me feel a bit nostalgic about my C++ days and i might give it a spin the next few days :)