Talking Drupal

Today we are talking about the revolt event Loop, what it is, and why it matters with guest Alexander Varwijk (farvag). We’ll also cover IEF Complex Widget Dialog as our module of the week. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/474 Topics What is an event loop Why does Drupal need an event loop What will change in core to implement this What problem does this solve Does this make Cron cleaner and long running processes faster What impact will this have on contrib How would contrib use this loop What does this mean for database compatibility What inspired this change Test instability Why Revolt Will this help with Drupal AI Resources Adopt the Revolt event loop for async task orchestration revoltphp/event-loop was added as a dependency to Drupal Core Add "EventLoop::run" to Drupal Core Migrate BigPipe and the Renderer code that's currently built with fibers Revolt Playground that shows converting some Fiber implementations from Drupal to the Event Loop DrupalCon Barcelona Talk about "Why Asy