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Awesome. It looks like you're reusing your own dependencies which is cool. Can you explain how untwisted relates to twisted a little more? I read the repo readme, but not sure I'm following.

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Untwised is meant to solve all problems twisted solves but it does it in quite a different way. They are two different tools that would solve the same problems using different approaches. Untwisted doesnt share code nor architecture with twisted. In untwisted, sockets are abstracted as event machines, they are sort of "super sockets" that can dispatch events. You map handles to Spin instances, these handles are mapped upon events, when these events occurs then your handles get called. The handles can spawn events inside the Spin instances, in this way you can better abstract all kind of internet protocols consequently achieving a better level of modularity and extensibility. That is one of the reasons that sukhoi's code is sort of short, it is due to the underlying framework in which it was written on.

I'm not able to figure out dependencies.. is this pure python ? Or are you using one of gevent, libev, uvloop, etc.

Since it is py2, i suppose asyncio is out of the picture

untwisted is pure python. it uses either select/epoll for scaling sockets.

This is very interesting. did you consider using libev/uvloop - which are generally consider battle tested async frameworks ?

Is there anything missing that prompted you to reimplement ?

It seems a good thing to do, indeed. i'll consider that.

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