Re: Potluck - thread safe event loop with await semantics

[Ludovic Courtès]

Chris Vine <address@hidden> skribis:

> It features an a-sync procedure (in coroutines.scm) which can be used to
> provide await semantics on asynchronous code (so as to remedy inversion
> of control), and will work with callbacks for any event loop, including
> the glib event loop wrapped by guile-gnome.  More to the point, it also
> provides a thread safe event loop for guile (event-loop.scm) with
> support for watches on ports/file descriptors, and now supports proper
> timeouts, and permits events to be posted by other tasks.  This
> includes tasks running on other threads, for which there is a helper
> procedure a-sync-run-task-in-thread.

Interesting.  Have you tried to integrate it with one of the
object-oriented event loops like in GLib?  (Back in the day I thinking
about something like that to avoid the callback hell in Guile-Avahi.)

Thanks for the tasty dish!  :-)

Ludo’.