I'm Too Dumb for Zig's New Io Interface
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The author struggles to understand Zig's new IO interface, sparking a discussion about the complexity of the language and its potential adoption.
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i thought maybe you need 4 buffers. 2 for the raw data and 2 for encrypted data. i'd expect then the ones for encrypted data are larger because encryption usually makes ur data larger as far as i can tell.
other then that, just wondering if ud recommend Zig or if this kinda stuff is putting you off it? (might be an exception, or is this kinda confusion normal.?)