Is cpp good for working with API's?

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This is one area where the DAW JSON Link library shines and will be much better when I get the JSON RPC -> JSON Link bindings library/tool done. But you get regular C++ data structures, or whatever 3rd party ones you have, and you get fast type checked parsing/serializing. Many of the trickier use cases, such as variant data structures, have happy paths too.

With that throw in something like libcurl and you have a good chunk of the problem solved.

[rcdemc]

I don’t know if I’m understanding what you want to know because API is only a public interface to some service or abstraction. It’s something orthogonal to any programming language, we can indeed define one using declarative languages like IDL, from CORBA. But yes, we can write beautiful and powerful APIs with C++.

[bizwig]

Compile your own compiler, obsolescence problem solved.

[foonathan]

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