An Introduction to libuv

摘自：https://nikhilm.github.io/uvbook/introduction.html

The node.js project began in 2009 as a JavaScript environment decoupled from the browser. Using Google’s V8 and Marc Lehmann’s libev, node.js combined a model of I/O – evented – with a language that was well suited to the style of programming; due to the way it had been shaped by browsers. As node.js grew in popularity, it was important to make it work on Windows, but libev ran only on Unix. The Windows equivalent of kernel event notification mechanisms like kqueue or (e)poll is IOCP. libuv was an abstraction around libev or IOCP depending on the platform, providing users an API based on libev. In the node-v0.9.0 version of libuvlibev was removed.

Since then libuv has continued to mature and become a high quality standalone library for system programming. Users outside of node.js include Mozilla’s Rustprogramming language, and a variety of language bindings.

This book and the code is based on libuv version v1.3.0.