silicon

Given that the whole framework is in roughly 31kloc of C++ written mostly by you and this not your first framework. Can you talk more about your design choices, what the architectural patterns are and how metaprogramming plays a role [1] ? Besides your experience from writing Silicon [2], what other frameworks do you like the design of? What C++ codebases do you like or find interesting from a design perspective? [1] https://github.com/matt-42/iod (merged into Lithium) [2] https://github.com/matt-42/silicon

I'll write more about it later, but silicon actually has a nice way to deal with databases. It currently only support sqlite, but it has: - a sqlite middleware: See the example here: https://github.com/matt-42/silicon#middlewares - a sqlite ORM middleware: https://github.com/matt-42/silicon/blob/master/silicon/sqlit... - a generic CRUD implementation (relying on the ORM): https://github.com/matt-42/silicon/blob/master/tests/crud.cc The mysql, redis, postgresql equivalents will come soon.

Even if it not clear in the readme. The preprocessor is optional. I posted the plain c++ version of the hello_word example here: https://github.com/matt-42/silicon/issues/2#issuecomment-705... I will add a note in the readme about the preprocessor and how to bypass it.