> C++ does not have its own socket() API replacement for network programming In experimental but there is the Networking TS: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/

> C++ does not have its own socket() API replacement for network programming In experimental but there is the Networking TS: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/networking https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/networking > even C++ thread uses pthread underneath https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread was added in C++11. How it is implemented doesn't really matter, does it? It doesn't leak any pthread-ness.