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A (toy) BitTorrent engine in Rust whenever I want to recharge a bit: https://github.com/mandreyel/cratetorrent . The scope is small and well defined and so is a welcome break from …

I completely agree. It’s depressing to see the whole thing steadily come apart at the seams due to their own leadership (or lack thereof, one could argue). Actually I realize what …

A possible alternative source of income for Mozilla I think would be, and one I haven’t seen mentioned before, providing consulting services in their areas of expertise. For exampl…

It's a valid point, I think. I'd probably also trust something so established as Boost more than some random guy's lib on GitHub. However, I specifically wrote mio because I prefer…

Oh, I missed this response (still a little overwhelmed). I'm so glad I checked again because there is some precious wisdom in there. Thank you for taking the time to write it down.…

That is a great idea, thanks. Opened an issue on it.

Thank you for the kind words. I'll buy you a beer if we ever meet!

Hmm, I see, I haven't come across this suggestion but I may not have researched this topic well enough. I'll try your suggestion next time. I appreciate the responses--learned some…

This is a valid point. My use case was very frequent reads of large files at pretty much unpredictable positions, so in theory mmap seemed justified. However, I never got around th…

This is definitely unfortunate, but in my defense I was not aware of Rust's mio (or anything related to Rust beyond its existence) at the time of writing and naming my library. I h…

Author here. Long time lurker, but made an an account now. Wow, I did not expect this. I'm really touched. I wrote this as a small utility for my own consumption because I was unsa…