I don't normally post on Hacker News, but just came here to cast a vote of support for the project and say that I have been using the library with great success after trying numerous other C++ solutions in the past.
I think the lib strikes a good balance between portability and performance and is very light weight and a breeze to integrate.
The numbers we have seen have been very impressive so far. Alex had been very responsive with issues and feature requests and I can definitely recommend people give it a whirl.
We use uWebSockets as the main WebSocket server engine for SocketCluster http://socketcluster.io/ - We liked it from the beginning because it was a drop-in replacement for the 'ws' Node.js module and performed MUCH better. Even in the worst case, we found it to be more than 2x faster than ws.
Alex (the author) has been very thorough and made sure that it passes all the popular WebSocket standard tests so the switch has been seamless.
I've had similar success. The biggest benefit has been with memory in my experience, much much less RAM usage although i don't have specific numbers right now.
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The numbers we have seen have been very impressive so far. Alex had been very responsive with issues and feature requests and I can definitely recommend people give it a whirl.
Alex (the author) has been very thorough and made sure that it passes all the popular WebSocket standard tests so the switch has been seamless.
Point is, I've been there where it mattered and websockets were always slow.
Friend of mine built this on uWebSockets this year:
http://wilds.io
Have rarely been so impressed with a new library.