On the libuv core team!

My week couldn’t have ended better. Today while I was working Bert pinged me on IRC and told me I was getting commit access to the libuv project (he even announced it!). I hadn’t asked for this nor I needed it, but I’m so glad it happened.

First time I heard about libuv it wasn’t even called like that, it was called liboio (here is an old clone) and it was presented by Ryan Dahl as the solution for NodeJS on Windows. This happened between Node 0.4 and 0.6, since Node 0.6.0 was the first version to ship with libuv. It wasn’t until a bit later when I really started playing with it.

I started writing pyuv about two years ago with the purpose of using it as the backend for some project (that ended up being evergreen, but it took a while to get there) but more importantly, I wanted to enhance my C coding skills and learn more about the CPython internals.

Fast forward 2 years. I’m no C guru, but I feel much more comfortable writing C and I think I did improve a lot. Most of this came from contributing to libuv. Ben and Bert are great maintainers, not only because they write top quality C code (I’ve learned so much just by reading) but because they know how to build a community around the project. It’s difficult to put it in words, but after interacting with many Open Source projects, libuv has been one of those where I just want to stick around, use it, improve it and help others use it.

This came to me as a surprise, and I hope I can continue to help libuv even better now 🙂

achievement

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