Re:What's new in Swift 3.1
by paxcoder on Friday January 27, 2017 @02:27PM
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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.
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