Comment by nxobject
8 days ago
I'm curious – is MSFT using this in production, or is this a "20% time" project? I'm not sure MSVC could compile the GNU extensions used.
8 days ago
I'm curious – is MSFT using this in production, or is this a "20% time" project? I'm not sure MSVC could compile the GNU extensions used.
Author here. It is not currently in production, but it is part of a project in Azure which will go to production at some point. I'm actually leaving Microsoft next week and fully intend to keep working on it if I can reach an agreement to do so with my new employer.
If an agreement can't be reached with your new employer are you certain that folks at Microsoft will continue maintaining this library? I'd like to experiment with it but have trepidation regarding future development.
There are people on my team who are interested in stewarding, so I think it'll be covered.
> I'm not sure MSVC could compile the GNU extensions used.
The supported platforms only list Linux and Mac. Notably missing from that list is any of the BSDs (not counting what may or may not remain of BSD under the Mac hood).
I just haven't tried it on a BSD. No reason it wouldn't work though. Might require a couple of fixes here and there, but generally the library sticks to standard C stuff and uncontroversial POSIX (in the POSIX target).