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Wrote a section on the Super-project, based on some legacy Wiki pages that needed considerable updating, and the boostdep tool steps as this covered installing the necessary components.

Here’s an overview of some projects I have been working on the last few months.

In spite of it being winter here, Boost.MySQL is presenting a new pool this year! This was one of the most requested features in the library, and will finally be generally available as an experimental feature in Boost 1.85.

Over the last few months I have been mainly working on Boost.Beast and Boost.PropertyTree.

Over the past few months I have been working on a number of libraries both for proposal to, and currently in Boost.

This functionality is not provided for mere syntactic convenience: Boost.Unordered speeds up the entire process by pipelining the different internal stages of each individual visitation, which results in performance improvements of 40% and more.

As the year comes to a close, I reflect on the exciting and productive final quarter of 2023. My involvement has been primarily focused on the Boost Libraries and the development of MrDocs, both of which have offered unique challenges and opportunities for growth.

This last quarter has been an interesting one. Development on the Unordered library has slowed down so I’ve been re-tasked with aiding in the development of a whole new slew of HTTP/1-based libraries.

During Q3 2023, my work has been to get the new Boost website ready to launch. Though I’ve been a fullstack developer most of my career, I came in to focus more on the front-end development. I started right before Q3, so much of the site architecture was already in place.

Added support for platforms lacking wchar_t / wsnprintf

In the third quarter my work was mostly focused on improvements to JSON’s conversion features. In Boost.JSON conversion between user types and library containers is done with value_to and value_from functions. Conversions of composite types are attempted recursively.

As you may know, BoostServerTech is a series of projects that showcase how Boost can be used to create high-performance web applications. It’s a place to showcase Boost technology to both authors and users, and try new stuff.