Hello everyone,
I’ve just submitted a haxe-evolution PR proposing a new sys API modeled after a number of modules from Node.js. These new APIs aim to fix some short-comings of the old APIs, and add some functionality that is not available yet.
Key features include:
- I/O using streams
- asynchronous support (via callbacks) for filesystem, sockets (via streams), DNS, HTTP
- minimal implementation of type-safe events
- wider range of filesystem operations (
chmod,chown, symlink specifics, etc)
Some things to note:
- if accepted, this will affect all
systargets (cpp,cs,eval,java(+jvm),hl,lua,neko,php,python), as well asjswithhxnodejs - once implemented, this should not affect existing Haxe code; eventually the old APIs might be deprecated with a warning
- this is a proposal for the API design, not yet concrete implementations, though many targets will simply wrap libuv