MIO - Metal IO

MIO is a lightweight IO library for Rust with a focus on adding as little overhead as possible over the OS abstractions.

Features

Event loop backed by epoll, kqueue.
Zero allocations at runtime
Non-blocking TCP sockets
High performance timer system
Thread safe message channel for cross thread communication

Coming soon

UDP and Unix domain sockets
Signal handling

Non goals

The following are specifically omitted from MIO and are left to the user or higher level libraries.

File operations
Thread pools / multi-threaded event loop

Platforms

Currently, MIO only supports Linux and Darwin. However, Windows support will be coming soon. The goal is to support all platforms that Rust supports.