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Moving Boost forward: Asio, coroutines, and maybe even modules

https://cppalliance.org/ruben/2025/04/10/Ruben2025Q1Update.html

Boost updates include coroutine-based Asio usage, a prototype for native C++20 module support with CMake integration, performance benchmarks and enhancements for Boost.MySQL, Boost.Decimal integration, and plans for a Postgres library.

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