eventcore/README.md

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EventCore

This is a high-performance native event loop abstraction for D, focused on asynchronous I/O and GUI message integration. The API is callback (delegate) based. For a higher level fiber based abstraction, take a look at vibe.d.

Build Status

Supported drivers and operating systems

Driver Linux Windows macOS FreeBSD Android iOS
SelectEventDriver yes yes yes¹ yes¹
EpollEventDriver yes
WinAPIEventDriver yes
KqueueEventDriver yes¹ yes¹
LibasyncEevnetDriver —¹ —¹ —¹ —¹

¹ planned, but not currenly implemented

Driver development status

Feature SelectEventDriver EpollEventDriver WinAPIEventDriver KqueueEventDriver
TCP Sockets yes yes
UDP Sockets yes yes
USDS yes yes
DNS yes yes
Timers yes yes yes
Events yes yes yes
Unix Signals yes² yes²
Files yes yes yes
UI Integration yes¹ yes¹ yes
File watcher yes² yes² yes
Feature LibasyncEventDriver
TCP Sockets
UDP Sockets
USDS
DNS
Timers
Events
Unix Signals
Files
UI Integration
File watcher

¹ Manually, by adopting the X11 display connection socket ² Currently only supported on Linux

Open questions

  • Error code reporting
  • Adopting existing file descriptors (done for files)
  • Enqueued writes
  • Use the type system to prohibit passing thread-local handles to foreign threads