Is this repository used?

[devoncarew]

Hi - I have some general questions about this repo. My understanding was that it was a proof-of-concept for pulling much of dart:io out into regular dart code - potentially making dart:io smaller and only relying on some pieces that had to be native, like sockets.

I don't believe that this project is active anymore however. I do see that this repo is dep'd into the dart sdk, and that its tests are run on the bots (https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/DEPS#L343 / /third_party/pkg_tested/http_io). This repo isn't actually consumed by anything however?

Adding in @zanderso @bkonyi and @a-siva who may all have context here (and cc @kevmoo).

[bkonyi]

AFAIK, this repo was originally meant to host the package that's currently dart:_http, but that never really got anywhere. The code here is probably out of date and I don't think there's any reason to keep the repository active.

[zanderso]

Some history:

• Initially, the dart:io Http implementation used to use a bunch of calls into the runtime.
• I migrated it to be based only on the Socket API.
• One motivation for package:http_io was to be the new home for dart:io Http. The other was to ensure that it continued to be possible to implement an http client using only the Socket API (that is, without calling into the runtime.)
• The concerns and the package are probably obsoleted by dart:ffi, so I'd say it's safe to nuke it.

[mit-mit]

Thanks, I'll go ahead and archive it!