PIP - Platform-Independent Primitives - is crossplatform library for C++ developers. It is wrap around STL and pure C++. This library can help developers write non-GUI projects much more quickly, efficiently and customizable than on pure C++. Library contains many classes, some of them are pure abstract, some classes can be used as they are, some classes should be inherited to new classes. PIP provide classes:

direct output to console (PICout)
containers (PIVector, PIList, PIMap, PIStack)
byte array (PIByteArray)
string (PIString, PIStringList)
base object (events and handlers) (PIObject)
thread (PIThread)
timer (PITimer)
console (information output) (PIConsole)
- stand-alone
- server
- client
i/o devices
- base class (PIIODevice)
- file (PIFile)
- serial port (PISerial)
- ethernet (PIEthernet)
- USB (PIUSB)
- packets extractor (PIPacketExtractor)
- binary log (PIBinaryLog)
connection quality diagnotic (PIDiagnostics)
command-line arguments parser (PICLI)
math evaluator (PIEvaluator)
peering net node (PIPeer)
process (PIProcess)
state machine (PIStateMachine)

Basic using of PIP described at page Getting started