Choosing between portability and innovation

Posted Mar 3, 2011 22:59 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Choosing between portability and innovation by mezcalero
Parent article: Choosing between portability and innovation

Still, I think the asynchronous API was the right approach, if just because (as the PA simple API shows) it is possible to implement a synchronous API in terms of it, but not vice versa.

Mandatorily blocking I/O is a curse, even if nonblocking I/O is always trickier to use. Kudos for making the right choice here.