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jufter on July 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig's New Async I/O

> how do i know that the CPU thing does not block inside my async io thing?

I think it's common sense to not interweave IO with long-running CPU, hence sans IO.

If you want to go that route, we already have solutions: goroutines and beam processes.

phplovesong on July 13, 2025 [–]

This was my point. With Go it does not matter, i can do IO or CPU both with Gos concurrency (CSP), but with async/await i usully cannot, i assume this is not something Zig is planning on, as it seems to be all about IO.

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