1 #+TITLE: 8sync: an asynchronous programming library for Guile
3 8sync (pronounced "eight-sync") is an asynchronous programming library
4 for [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile]].
7 - An asynchronous event loop! Non-blocking on ports and file access.
8 - Easy to use! The =%sync= / =8sync= operator lets you write
9 asynchronous code that looks simple while avoiding callback hell.
10 This happens through the magic of [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Prompts.html][delimited continuations]].
11 ([[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Shift-and-Reset.html#Shift-and-Reset][Hence the %]]!)
12 - Provides building blocks on which you can build other asynchronous
13 frameworks or paradigms on top of it (some of which will be
14 included in the future), like:
15 - an actor model implementation
16 - the propagator model
18 - your very heart's desire!
22 Hey, I ought to get some docs up, right?
26 Everything in here is LGPL v3 or later, as published by the Free
27 Software Foundation, with exceptions below:
29 - Some autotools related files are under the GPL v3 or later in the
30 toplevel directory (their headers will say). I guess if you
31 compile things using them, maybe this project becomes GPL v3 or
32 later? I don't think so because the build tools themselves aren't
33 linked, but I can't be sure. If you really care, consider this
34 whole project GPL v3 or later optionally... anyway a
35 COPYING-gplv3.txt is included for these reasons.