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As I see it, Zig’s first attempt at async IO was via the async / await model, albeit implemented in a a novel way using the function’s frame directly with suspend and resume points. It seems although it was a cool and novel idea, it clashes in critical ways with other aspects of the compiler which have higher priority in terms of achieving Zig’s goals. So it was sacrificed and removed.

I think we should add “for now” here:

[#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…