Modeling Data Concurrency w/ Asynchronous I/O in Zig - RedisConf 2020

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as the clearest explanation of how Zig achieves colorless async/await.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Redis

Topic

async io in zig

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• I really can't agree with this premise after seeing how Zig implements color-less async/await: [LINK] I highly recommend watching Andrew Kelley's video (linked in that article) on this topic: [VIDEO]

• There is an interesting approach in Zig to explicitly kick call frames to achieve colorless asyncness. [VIDEO]

• I recently wrote an IO abstraction over io_uring using Zig's async/await. Here's how you would do a write()/fsync()/read() with this ( [LINK] ): const offset: u64 = 0; const bytes_written = try io.write(fd, buffer_write[0..], offset); try io.fsync(fd); const bytes_read = try io.read(fd, buffer_read[0..], offset); Other …