• [$] Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Wed Dec 3 06:40:07 2025


    The designers of the

    Zig programming language have been working to find a
    suitable design for asynchronous code for some time.
    Zig is a carefully minimalist language, and its

    initial design for
    asynchronous I/O did not fit well with its other
    features. Now, the project has

    announced (in a Zig SHOWTIME video) a new approach to asynchronous I/O that promises to solve the

    function coloring problem, and allows writing code that will execute
    correctly using either synchronous or asynchronous I/O.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1046084/
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