> drag C developers away from the POSIX sockets API

Don't be dismayed if you're not happy with NIO:

There are numerous APIs that do such dragging, for example the
ADAPTIVE Communications Environment (ACE):

   http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html

Mozilla's NetScape Portable Runtime, The Electric Magic Company's
ZooLib is C++ and MIT Licensed:

   http://www.em.net/portfolio/2000/12/zoolib.html

I expect there are many others.

Mike Crawford
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:28 AM, Jean-Daniel <mail...@xenonium.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Le 20 août 2018 à 18:51, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> a écrit :
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 18, 2018, at 11:19 AM, Stephane Sudre <dev.iceb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It might be the new Carbon once:
>>>
>>> - there is ABI stability in Swift. This could be not before late 2019.
>>>
>>> - the new APIs are only available in Swift. Is Swift NIO a hint this
>>> is coming sooner than expected?
>>
>> By “NIO” do you mean the new Network.framework? They did only demo the Swift 
>> API at WWDC, but it has a full C API too. (Which makes sense, since part of 
>> its goal is to drag C developers away from the POSIX sockets API.)
>>
>
> No, NIO is basically Netty in swift (and can use Network.framework under the 
> hood): https://github.com/apple/swift-nio <https://github.com/apple/swift-nio>
>
>
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