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Re:Zig: Build System Reworked by kristoff_it on Saturday May 30, 2026 @04:33PM (#48340342)
It's not Future.await that is special per se, it's that it (Future.await) will have in it somewhere either in its body or in another function that it calls in turn, a use of `suspend` (using old Zig syntax).

`suspend` is the keyword that best fits your description (you can think of it as being closely related to `yield` in other languages), and it's kind of a lower-level primitive compared to async/await.

This also means that, according to our plans, Zig will have to propagate "stackless-ness" upwards in the call chain while analyzing the code (thus making Future.await not special per-se).

Re:Zig: Build System Reworked by tarruda on Saturday May 30, 2026 @05:08PM (#48340638)
> This also means that, according to our plans, Zig will have to propagate "stackless-ness" upwards in the call chain while analyzing the code (thus making Future.await not special per-se).

Very interesting, will be following Zig development more closely. Thanks for sharing!