One and a half colors
One and a half colors
Posted Dec 2, 2025 23:02 UTC (Tue) by sionescu (subscriber, #59410)In reply to: One and a half colors by excors
Parent article: Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
Correct. It still has two colours, and still suffers from a lack of preemption, so a CPU-bound code block can still starve an async worker thread. Sucks as much as the other approaches (Rust, Go), just in a slightly different flavour.
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