Johannes Weiss

> > NIOExtas and NIOFS have the same development team and therefore I think it should be absolutely possible to adopt this sooner than that. > > With the proposed...

> IMO this is just more evidence we need to raise the priority of getting it over the line. Agreed! The ecosystem deserves to have a modern, non-blocking file system...

> It will have to be a temporary solution for the moment. Yeah, that's totally fine. We can just make them `async throws`, deprecate the `throws` ones and use `NIOThreadPool`...

CC @FranzBusch this also suggests the CI isn't setup correctly

> 5.8 is out of the support policy already so this is expected https://forums.swift.org/t/dropping-support-for-swift-5-8-on-linux/78533 This cannot be expected. The `Package.swift` says `swift-tools-version:5.8` so this _will break_ people. We need to...