IO

[RossSmyth]

Once parsers are done the actual IO must be setup. I'll have to give this more thought, but making some traits for interfacing with the IO types is probably the way to go.

[RossSmyth]

• https://crates.io/crates/rusb - Looks to be as good as it gets for USB
• https://github.com/serialport/serialport-rs - Not async
• https://github.com/berkowski/mio-serial - Async but low-level mio for runtime.
• https://github.com/berkowski/tokio-serial - Async and tokio
  Runtime:
• Tokio vs. Mio
  • Tokio uses Mio internally. If Mio is used looks like you gotta roll your own scheduler and IO.
  • Probably go with Tokio. But it's worth considering.
  • async-std seems to be falling our of use
  • smol doesn't look that active either
  • Glommio would be neat but seems overkill, and it's Linux-bound for the most part. If wanted to use would probably have to contribute the Windows ioring api ourselves.
• Structured concurrency would be nice.
  • Niko has an experiment here but it's probably not ready for primetime.
  • async_nursery exists
  • async-scoped exists, but would have to be audited

[RossSmyth]

I have no idea how to interace with GPIB.

• https://linux-gpib.sourceforge.io/
• Windows?
• Mac?