1 8sync: an asynchronous programming library for Guile
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4 8sync (pronounced "eight-sync") is an asynchronous programming library
5 for [GNU Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/).
8 - An asynchronous event loop! Non-blocking on ports and file access.
9 - Easy to use! The =%8sync= operator lets you write
10 asynchronous code that looks simple while avoiding callback hell.
11 This happens through the magic of
12 [delimited continuations](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Prompts.html).
13 ([Hence the %](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Shift-and-Reset.html#Shift-and-Reset)!)
14 - Provides building blocks on which you can build other asynchronous
15 frameworks or paradigms on top of it (some of which will be
16 included in the future), like:
17 - an actor model implementation
18 - the propagator model
20 - your very heart's desire!
25 For now, read the source ;)
27 Hey, I ought to get some docs up, right? Soon, I promise!
33 Everything in here is LGPL v3 or later, as published by the Free
34 Software Foundation, with exceptions below:
36 - Some autotools related files are under the GPL v3 or later in the
37 toplevel directory (their headers will say). I guess if you
38 compile things using them, maybe this project becomes GPL v3 or
39 later? I don't think so because the build tools themselves aren't
40 linked, but I can't be sure. If you really care, consider this
41 whole project GPL v3 or later optionally... anyway a
42 COPYING-gplv3.txt is included for these reasons.