eventcore/README.md
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EventCore
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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](https://vibed.org/).
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Supported drivers and operating systems
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Driver | Linux | Windows | macOS | FreeBSD | Android | iOS
---------------------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------
SelectEventDriver | yes | yes | yes | yes¹ | — | —
EpollEventDriver | yes | — | — | — | — | —
WinAPIEventDriver | — | yes | — | — | — | —
KqueueEventDriver | — | — | yes | yes¹ | — | —
LibasyncEventDriver | —¹| —¹| —¹| —¹| — | —
¹ planned, but not currenly implemented
Supported compilers
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The following compilers are tested and supported:
- DMD 2.082.0
- DMD 2.081.2
- DMD 2.080.1
- DMD 2.079.0
- DMD 2.078.3
- DMD 2.077.1
- DMD 2.076.1
- LDC 1.11.0
- LDC 1.10.0
- LDC 1.9.0
- LDC 1.8.0
- LDC 1.7.0
- LDC 1.6.0
Driver development status
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Feature \ EventDriver | Select | Epoll | WinAPI | Kqueue | Libasync
----------------------|--------|-------|---------|---------|----------
TCP Sockets | yes | yes | yes | yes | —
UDP Sockets | yes | yes | yes | yes | —
USDS | yes | yes | — | yes | —
DNS | yes | yes | yes | yes | —
Timers | yes | yes | yes | yes | —
Events | yes | yes | yes | yes | —
Unix Signals | yes² | yes | — | — | —
Files | yes | yes | yes | yes | —
UI Integration | yes¹ | yes¹ | yes | yes¹ | —
File watcher | yes² | yes | yes | yes² | —
Pipes | yes | yes | — | yes | —
Processes | yes | yes | — | yes | —
¹ Manually, by adopting the X11 display connection socket
² Systems other than Linux use a polling implementation
### Open questions
- Error code reporting
- Enqueued writes
- Use the type system to prohibit passing thread-local handles to foreign threads