luv

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "luv\n===\n\n[![Linux Build Status](https://github.com/luvit/luv/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/luvit/luv/actions/workflows/ci.yml)\n[![Windows Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/uo1qhdcc0vcqsiok/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/racker-buildbot/luv/branch/master)\n\n[libuv](https://github.com/libuv/libuv) bindings for\n[luajit](http://luajit.org/) and [lua](http://www.lua.org/)\n[5.1](http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html)/\n[5.2](http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html)/\n[5.3](http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html)/\n[5.4](http://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html).\n\nThis library makes libuv available to lua scripts.  It was made for the [luvit](http://luvit.io/) project but should usable from nearly any lua project.\n\nThe library can be used by multiple threads at once.  Each thread is assumed to load the library from a different `lua_State`.  Luv will create a unique `uv_loop_t` for each state.  You can\u0027t share uv handles between states/loops.\n\n- [Luv docs](docs/docs.md)\n- [Libuv docs](http://docs.libuv.org/)\n\n```lua\nlocal uv = require(\u0027luv\u0027)\n\n-- Create a handle to a uv_timer_t\nlocal timer = uv.new_timer()\n\n-- This will wait 1000ms and then continue inside the callback\ntimer:start(1000, 0, function ()\n  -- timer here is the value we passed in before from new_timer.\n\n  print(\"Awake!\")\n\n  -- You must always close your uv handles or you\u0027ll leak memory\n  -- We can\u0027t depend on the GC since it doesn\u0027t know enough about libuv.\n  timer:close()\nend)\n\nprint(\"Sleeping\")\n\n-- uv.run will block and wait for all events to run.\n-- When there are no longer any active handles, it will return\nuv.run()\n```\n\n\nHere is an example of an TCP echo server\n```lua\nlocal uv = require(\u0027luv\u0027)\n\nlocal function create_server(host, port, on_connection)\n\n  local server = uv.new_tcp()\n  server:bind(host, port)\n\n  server:listen(128, function(err)\n    -- Make sure there was no problem setting up listen\n    assert(not err, err)\n\n    -",
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  "one_liner": "Lua bindings for libuv providing async I/O and event-loop capabilities to Lua and LuaJIT scripts.",
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  "version_head": "HEAD",
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  "why_use_this": "Enables Lua scripts to perform non-blocking file, network, and timer operations via libuv\u0027s cross-platform event loop. Essential for async Lua frameworks like Luvit and projects needing high-performance I/O without callbacks hell. Direct libuv access gives you fine-grained control over handles and streams."
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