I did try both Civet and Mongoose. We didn't have a good build / dependency system for C++ at the time, just CMake, so when I considered all the little librarie

I did try both Civet and Mongoose. We didn't have a good build / dependency system for C++ at the time, just CMake, so when I considered all the little libraries I'd have to learn and pull in like HTML templating, SQL, etc., while making sure my code was thread-safe, it looked like too much work.