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by tarruda 1864 days ago
> I just know very well that Ryan is redoing exactly the same mistakes as Node with the same obsession he had on "EPOLL"[0] back then that will end up in a new fiasco.

"epoll" is a Linux API for listening on multiple file descriptors. Different platforms have equivalent APIs, and these are normally core of any scalable non-blocking I/O network program.

Can you elaborate why do you think he had an obsession with "epoll"? More importantly, can you elaborate what was the fiasco? Epoll is still used under the hoods by Node.js (through libuv) and many other network servers such as Nginx