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"few niche applications" being any application that touches files, network or want to run code in the kernel. Sounds like a bigger target than just "niche", but
by capableweb 6y ago
"few niche applications" being any application that touches files, network or want to run code in the kernel. Sounds like a bigger target than just "niche", but I'm no Linux developer so what do I know.
- blub 6y agoeBPF has been available for a while now, one year ago there were even two books published about it, one by an author of the "bcc" mentioned in this ad disguised as a technical article. It didn't revolutionize programming in Linux that I'm aware of. It found its market in observability and performance analysis. io_uring seems to be relevant mostly to people using or wanting to use AIO. Outside of a "few niche applications" this is unimportant for the majority of Linux developers. Libraries like ASIO would likely wrap it anyway since these low-level APIs are not pleasant to use.