(Work in progress)

Features:

• No unsafe code
• All the downsides of UDP with the sluggishness of TCP
• Slow as a camel
• I'm not sure how it works
• Experimental
• Not safe against DOS attacks

Downsides:

• It works

This crate is meant be be akin to https://github.com/BonsaiDen/cobalt-rs, in the sense that it provides:

• Connection over UDP
• Guarantee that a message arrives at destination
• Extremely Low Latency

This crate was mainly made in mind for use cases where bandwidth is plentifull and low latency is of the utmost importance. Specifically, online multiplayer gaming.

• Keeps track of connection, handles timeouts (uses 2-way handshake)
• Automatic packet re-ordering
• Additional CRC32 check over IP packets, reducing chances of corrupted data to almost none
• Possibility to make sure a packet arrives at destination

• Not stream based
• You choose which packets should be discarded if it doesn't go through the first time:
  • Key messages will make sure to go through with an Ack system
  • Forgettable messages will be discarded if packet wasn't complete the first time

• (Planned) No network congestion handling
• (Planned) No test coverage
• (Planned) No optionnal SSL and/or other secure way to send data: everything is plaintext
• (Planned) No error correction codes of any kind (Hamming, ...)
• (May change in the future) Payloads are limited in size (around ~300KB)
• Untested against DOS attacks
• No Futures support. Will probably never have it.

MIT