Many organizations are actually doing this.

It will have the same problems as any other webserver utilizing blocking IO.

Various people are working on async IO solutions; but it likely won't fall into the stdlib from what I can tell.

I'm currently working on a rust abstraction for epoll and kqueue to eventually be paired with a multithreaded event loop/reactor. Lots of stuff to reimplement.

Is there a github repo or similar for what you're working on?

I found this... https://github.com/carllerche/mio

No windows support yet, but planned.

It would be cool if this helps Derby go somewhere!

Why would they incur a massive scandal for one guy they can surveil forever?

If enough doubt is cast, they'll drop this.