libuv Alternatives

libuv is described as 'Software library that provides asynchronous event notification. libuv supports epoll(4), kqueue(2), Windows IOCP, and Solaris event ports. It is primarily designed for use in Node.js but it is also used by other software projects' and is an app in the development category. There are three alternatives to libuv for Linux, Mac and Windows. The best libuv alternative is libevent, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like libuv are Tokio and libev.

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    libevent

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    libevent is an asynchronous event notification software library. The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    Tokio

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    Tokio is an open source library providing an asynchronous, event driven platform for building fast, reliable, and lightweight network applications. It leverages Rust's ownership and concurrency model to ensure thread safety. Tokio is a blazing fast, lightweight and reliable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    libev

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    libev is a full-featured and high-performance event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs. Its features include child/pid watchers, periodic timers based on wallclock (absolute) time (in addition to timers using relative timeouts), as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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