[usocket-devel] Re: IPv6 support in usocket

[Anton Vodonosov]

I also want to highlight the advantage of IOLib based sockets.

The underlying socket API provided by most of the OSes today is the same - BSD sockets.
Various Lisp implementations multiply this basic API by proving their own, distinct lisp versions of socket APIs.
On top of it we create a compatibility layer, to unify the API.

OSes: 1 API "BSD sockets"  => Lisp impls: 10 APIs => usocket 1 API.

If we use some FFI library like IOLib to access OS socket APIs we avoid all these redundant 10 intermediate APIs.

Best regards,
- Anton