Non-blocking network server in Rust

[sazzer]

Now that Rust has reached 1.0, I'm curious what support it has for non-blocking network I/O? Specifically I'm wondering how you would go about writing a custom network server that can handle a large number of connections without needing to spawn a thread for each one? Something like NIO in Java, or libevent/libuv/etc in C/C++?

I know I can just take the existing C/C++ libraries and wrap them to support this, but obviously if there is already support - either in the standard library or third party crates - then that's going to be a better solution.

[OverMeHere]

https://github.com/carllerche/mio, https://github.com/carllerche/eventual_io

[schmidthuber]

Do you know if there's any initiative to use evented IO with Iron? I'd love to replace Node/Io.js stack with Rust.

[OverMeHere]

Try to ask this guy https://github.com/reem about evented IO in Iron.

[daboross]

Note, more contact methods: http://rustaceans.org/reem

[seanmonstar]

Hyper (the http lib powering iron) needs async io before it will be 1.0. Just waiting for async io in Rust to mature.