Thanks a bunch for your feedback :)

My initial plan was to provide the node features using Foundation.framework features only. Now, this could turn out to be more boilerplate code than I intended to write and if it does, I'm now pretty sure I'd go with libuv.

I'm not quite sure about using libuv from the start, though. My consideration was that a) this is not targeted at server applications, so you don't necessarily need very high performance and b) libuv is a cross-platform library, while I'm targeting darwin only, so it might be a bit overkill.

Do you have experience with libuv? If so, do you have experience regarding footprint / conciseness? Can you confirm/deny my presumptions?