Re: [boost.async] Seeking Endorsement

From: Klemens Morgenstern (klemensdavidmorgenstern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-07-25 15:14:46

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 10:42 PM Christian Mazakas via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Ah, seems like this is an Asio library?
>

It is not. It is a coroutine library that uses asio for it's event loop.

>
> I think I was expecting something like runtime-agnostic coroutine
> primitives
> that users could use to easily build their own coroutines.
>

Why would users want to so that? The building blocks are present, but i
donl not understand why so many coroutine types would be needed.

>
> Maybe even adding something like cppcoro's `task<T>` which is far and away
> the best user-facing task implementation I've seen.
>

Async has a task<T>.

>
> Whatever happened to the Requests library that was being worked on? We
> should be reviewing that library instead of an Asio wrapper.
>

Not if we want users. Coroutines ate much more relevant at this time.

>
> - Christian
>
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