20 seconds of googling turned up several answers which only require about 30 lines of C++, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37765847/send-json-object-thr

20 seconds of googling turned up several answers which only require about 30 lines of C++, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37765847/send-json-object-through-zmq-with-c-client-python-server http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37765847/send-json-object.... cmake is pretty awesome at handling dependencies; our build process grabs dependencies from git and adds them to the project. Yes, there is more overhead and a learning curve, and if you are running a simple server there are probably better choices; we use a ton of python for these things, and wrap performant code in cython.