<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Jens,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I have to say that I am far from an expert in low level network coding, even if I started using Distributed object in 93 with NeXTStep, and I can build network connection with the basics, listen, bind, accept ... There is an interesting network code in swift with these basics on the IBM swift playground.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I wonder what kind of limitations are no longer relevant ?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And I found CocoaAsync very interesting to read because of the intensive use of GCD</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And maybe it would be interesting to know who use what today with swift to put a server or a client in use?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Regards<br><br>Gérard </div><div><br>Le 3 mai 2016 à 23:03, Jens Alfke <<a href="mailto:jens@mooseyard.com">jens@mooseyard.com</a>> a écrit :<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 3, 2016, at 12:46 PM, Gerard Iglesias <<a href="mailto:gerard_iglesias@me.com" class="">gerard_iglesias@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">A good reading </div><div style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://github.com/robbiehanson/CocoaAsyncSocket" class="">https://github.com/robbiehanson/CocoaAsyncSocket</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">This is highly Mac/iOS-specific code, so it doesn’t make sense for applications targeted at servers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, I’ve used CocoaAsyncSocket and it’s IMHO greatly overcomplicated for what it does. There is a LOT of code in there, and a fair amount of the complexity seems to be to work around obsolete limitations of iOS networking that are no longer relevant.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div></div></blockquote></body></html>