[tptacek]

I like libevent and all, but I don't think Twisted's use of libevent is a particularly big win for Twisted.

Again, this is apocryphal, but I remember someone trying to wrap Ruby around libevent and failing; I remember there being a reason this had to be done bespoke. And having fallen into this particular NIH trap many times before: there's just not a whole lot to a simple socket I/O loop.

What's been your experience with JRuby/EventMachine?

[gnufied]

Zed shaw tried to make libevent work with Ruby, but this was when we had Ruby 1.8.5 and there were problems with Ruby interpreter that prevented this (around threading IIRC).

[bascule]

For what it's worth, I've done two libev bindings, rev/Cool.io (originally in 2008) and nio4r in 2011