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.