\Device\Afd, or, the Deal with the Devil that makes async Rust work on Windows

The monster in the closet that no one wants to make eye contact.

notgull
@wirepair yeah, AFD is kinda cool but there's no stable API for it. last I heard, WINE is still trying to add emulation for it, but tbh the better option would just be for Microsoft to add a standardised usermode API set for polling overlapped IO completion ports.
@gsuberland yah going to stick with iocp but nice to know it’s there