Super brief library review
Dec. 10th, 2009 02:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
libevent is the second best thing that has ever happened to me. If you are doing asynchronous programming of any kind whatsoever1, you should be using libevent or an appropriate interface to it.
(The first best thing that's ever happened to me? Diverting a long walk through Iowa City with
ylla into the gym so that she could use the bathroom there. While waiting for her to finish up, I randomly found a newspaper and flipped through the classifieds, which led to me finding an ad for an internship at Integrated DNA Technologies, which I applied for and got; that led to me presenting at CodeCon, which led to my meeting
enochsmiles and a bunch of other awesome people who have improved my life considerably, including, appropriately enough, one of the authors of libevent.)
1Ok, fine, maybe not AJAX.
(The first best thing that's ever happened to me? Diverting a long walk through Iowa City with
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1Ok, fine, maybe not AJAX.