[davmac]

late reply, I know - I only just saw this discussion - I didn't post this story to HN myself. However:

I recently wrote a blog post discussion why I created Dasynq, here: https://davmac.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/introducing-dasynq/

Though I don't specifically discuss boost::asio there, I believe some of the points made there apply. Also, last time I checked, boost::asio mandated linking with threads library (at least for some features) whereas Dasynq doesn't, and boost::asio didn't offer support for watching POSIX signals or child process termination (Dasynq does). Finally, the boost::asio multi-threading model is awkward, for reasons I try to explain here: https://davmac.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/boost-asio-and-resou...