The goal of the Mio work is, in part, to implement a higher level, future based API on top of Mio. The award has been amazingly helpful to allow me to focus on getting it done.

I actually announced Tokio on Wednesday, which is the result of this work:

Announcement: https://medium.com/@carllerche/announcing-tokio-df6bb4ddb34 Code: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio

I think the work is headed in a good direction. I introduced a `Service` trait similar to Finagle to make working with services easier. I also provide a new streamlined way to write non-blocking IO services. The blog post describes this in more detail.

I'll be around if there are any questions about Mio & Tokio.