Zig's New Async I/o (text Version) – Andrew Kelley
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Andrew Kelley introduces Zig's new async I/O feature, sparking interest and discussion among HN users about its design and implications for systems programming.
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anitil
2 months ago
I don't have a lot of experience with async to judge this on its merits, but I loved the way this moved from very simple trivial examples, and then gradually built up the motivation for the next section as we went. Zig will definitely be one of the languages I spend some time with next, in a large part because of Andrew Kelley's writing
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