research: How to support async API for C binding?

[Xuanwo]

So far, I have no idea on how to support async API in C, we need some research and help from community.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/async
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_76_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html

[messense]

We can probably learn from hyper: https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/tree/master/src/ffi

[nasen23]

Is c binding being worked on? I think I could get my hands on some harder work. Please assign this to me if no one else is working on it. It might take quite some time though🥹.

[Xuanwo]

Go ahead and have fun! Maybe we can start with blocking api first.

[xyjixyjixyji]

It seems hyper let async task returns a Future, and used push_executors to push them to the executors, which further poll the task until completion.

Looks like a minimal async runtime in C 🤣 🤣 🤣 , anyone interested could check this for more details.

I think now maybe the C binding could be developed in the following order, and we still have plenty of time to think about our implementation of async operation.

1. Focus on the memory operator first, making it full-fledged.
2. Support other services, but only for blocking services.
3. Support the async operations.

Any ideas?