RFC: io

[aep]

so i've been thinking about how MutSlice is weird.

i'm proposing a generic IO thing that includes all the read/write stuff and works on FILE, fds, sockets, etc rather than just memory

[jwerle]

I like. So the idea is to implement this interface or will a handle be a first class type with it's prototype (impl) set up in a constructor implementation?

[aep]

well, in C interfaces are first class :D
so yeah, there's no additional compiler magic for this, its just a struct you return with handles,

maybe like

let h = fs::open("/etc/passwd");


new socket = tcp::make();
let h = socket.io()

[jwerle]

hell yeah!