Re:Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed
by dnautics on Monday December 14, 2020 @05:49AM
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having just learned it, async is not really complex, so much as "a thing that needs to be explained to you" kind of like how "pointers need to be explained to you". Sadly I don't see any good resources on that, yet.
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Re:Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed
by MaxBarraclough on Monday December 14, 2020 @05:57AM
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Disagree, async (edit: in .Net at least) is pretty complex. For instance, from my experience it seems few C# programmers know that it's possible to deadlock if you get it wrong. [0][1] Plenty of people get confused with the basics, too. [2][3]
[0] https://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/07/dont-block-on-async-c...
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2013/...
Zig is not .net. async in zig is simple, you just need to understand a few things: what a frame is, what the difference is between a stack frame and a heap frame, what it means (at the machine level) to jump between frames, and the fact that you can't do it in c. That's it!
It really is just a control flow structure in zig (which is why it's a keyword)