> in a few hours you have built up some high level APIs I think this is what OP is talking about when he calls using the std::net API’s easier. Driveby hacker

> in a few hours you have built up some high level APIs I think this is what OP is talking about when he calls using the std::net API’s easier. Driveby hackers are (probably) not going to spend a few hours re-implementing a network call.