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BurntSushi / byteorder

Rust library for reading/writing numbers in big-endian and little-endian.
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Support async analogues of Read and Write extensions #167

Closed jimblandy closed 4 years ago

jimblandy commented 4 years ago

It would be nice to offer extensions to the futures and tokio crates' AsyncRead and AsyncWrite traits analogous to the extensions for std::io::Read and Write.

It's true that we're hoping for those to all be unified, but that doesn't seem to be imminent.

See also the byteorder_async crate, which is a fork of this crate that has implemented this idea.

BurntSushi commented 4 years ago

I think folks should just use the forked crate for now. I'm not touching the async ecosystem right now. There are too many unknowns and the dependencies seemingly required to support it are absolutely huge. If and when std acquires async i/o traits, then we can revisit this.

jimblandy commented 4 years ago

Makes sense. I do hope we can get the async I/O traits into std; things are a bit weird without them.

jmg-duarte commented 6 months ago

@BurntSushi any interest in expanding this ~4 years later? The forked crate hasn't received updates 😞

BurntSushi commented 6 months ago

I'm not really interested in doing any major expansions to the byteorder crate at this time. If and when async I/O traits get added to std, then I'd be happy to build on them. But as it stands right now, there are two different AsyncRead traits. It's a maintenance nightmare. And this crate is at 1.0 while futures is not.