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Libuv supports windows and in some ways only exists because windows support is needed; on Unix/Linux where Node started, libev was sufficient; libuv was created
by beagle3 9y ago
Libuv supports windows and in some ways only exists because windows support is needed; on Unix/Linux where Node started, libev was sufficient; libuv was created to facilitate the windows port of node - though it is now standing in its own right.
- piscisaureus 9y agoI know - I am one of the authors of libuv. However libuv is pretty big and imposes its own asynchronous i/o model onto your application. Later I discovered that it is possible to do efficient epoll emulation on windows so then I wrote wepoll. With it you can just stick to the good ol' epoll/kqueue model and still support windows.