Kitura-net

Kitura networking

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Kitura networking

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Dec 12	2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC	2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Dec 19	2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC	2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 26	2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2	2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 9	2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 16	2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 23	2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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Good question. For networking, Kitura uses Kitura-net, which uses BlueSocket, which in turn uses C library's sockets[1]. On GNU/Linux, this is the GNU C Library, for which a package (Glibc) is provided by the Swift port[2]. For asynchrony they seem to be using libdispatch despite it being "early in the development"[3], but I've also noticed they're wrapping epoll and curl (see 1.B again), so it's hard to gauge the real extent of the hack. [1]: https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura/blob/master/Package.swif... https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-net/blob/master/Package.... https://github.com/IBM-Swift/BlueSocket/blob/master/Sources/... [2] https://swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/ [3] https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch

GCD is actually entirely viable now and widely used in iOS apps as well as forming the basis for server-side web frameworks like Kitura (for example: https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-net/blob/ff2deb97a2375fa...).