[#36] Zig Roadmap 2024 - Andrew Kelley

Question: Can we have a couple of words about async?

timestamp: https://youtu.be/5eL_LcxwwHg?t=1842

Paraphrased:

Andrew explains that it currently isn’t practical, because there are a lot of difficult problems, that are in the way of a good implementation of async, these other things need to be addressed first.

Summary

And I tried to transcribe the summary in the video:
timestamp of async/await summary

Ultimately, I think it can be recovered, I think we can have async/await.
But it is just an extremely difficult technical problem to solve and I am not willing to solve it in a half-assed way.

I don’t wanna just check an async/await box, it’s gotta be good.

Let me do it on my own time, we will get there, but there is just multiple huge technical problems to solve, to make it actually good.

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