An IO Streams Library

Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Feb 8 04:19:59 PST 2016


On Monday, 8 February 2016 at 09:08:53 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> I think this is a huge task and requires a (huge) DIP, and 
> collaborative effort of coming up with a good, really good, API 
> for BOTH synchronous and asynchronous IO. As mentioned in the 
> previous messages, there is already an asyncio library, 
> although I am not sure it is good enough to be in Phobos...
>
> I know people may not like Boost, but Boost.Asio is amazing and 
> we should perhaps use it as a guide, if not copy the whole 
> API...

I like boost. Well, sometimes. I _severely_ dislike boost::asio. 
The new couroutines may make it easier to use, I'd have to try 
1st, but what's the point when vibe.d exists?

Atila


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