About¶

Nikhil Marathe started writing this book one afternoon (June 16, 2012) when he didn’t feel like programming. He had recently been stung by the lack of good documentation on libuv while working on node-taglib. Although reference documentation was present, there were no comprehensive tutorials. This book is the output of that need and tries to be accurate. That said, Nikhil is young and inexperienced and may be severely wrong at points. He encourages you to call him out if you find an error. You can contribute to the book by forking the repository and sending a pull request.

Nikhil is indebted to Marc Lehmann’s comprehensive man page about libev which describes much of the semantics of the two libraries.

The book is written in RestructuredText and uses Sphinx to generate the html and PDF. vim, tmux and iTerm2 on a Macbook Pro helped craft the text and code.