> yet another manner in which my next application won't be cross-platform I skimmed the video and it really looks like sockets++: once you have the connection

> yet another manner in which my next application won't be cross-platform I skimmed the video and it really looks like sockets++: once you have the connection the rest is up to you. It doesn't seem to break anything on the wire. Unless you're referring to compilation - but we can assume that Libuv will soon abstract this platform away (just like it does with Windows IOCP).