Async I/O in Zig 0.16
https://lalinsky.com/2026/05/11/async-io-in-zig-016-today.html
Zig 0.16 shipped last month with std.Io, a cross-platform interface for I/O and concurrency. This is a big step for the ecosystem. Libraries can now be written against a standard I/O abstraction, independent of the runtime, and application developers can plug in whatever implementation they want.
My actual ranking for your criteria:
1. #Nim - https://nim-lang.org
2. #Odin - https://odin-lang.org
3. #Gleam - https://gleam.run
4. #Zig - https://ziglang.org
5. #Go - https://go.dev
I just started learning #OdinLang this weekend myself.
Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
#zig #ziglang #CodeOfConduct #rust #rustlang #isThisNuancedEnough
I've just noticed the recent LLM-policy drama surrounding Rust, and to be honest, it's put me off learning and using it. I'll stop working on my Learning Rust series and focus on Zig or C instead. At least Zig has a strict anti-LLM policy in place.
I should have started with Zig... Now, I'm really angry with myself for wasting weeks writing and learning about it 😠
Office People - now for Desktop PC.
Native Zig port using my Borowik Engine.
Codex is porting my old game (for Firefox OS) to my ZIG engine :D
Work in progress but it mostly works :)
In my quest for using -fincremental in Zig I've so far found and fixed 3 fairly critical linker bugs. (Sent a PR for one of them, got to do it for the other two but I'm a little bit uncertain about the details on one of them.)
Seems I'm going to have to implement a few relocation types as well, which means I'm probably going to have to understand the implementation on higher level and not just specific local details.
I'm in for a treat. 😬
Weeknotese for 2026, week 19: https://denisdefreyne.com/weeknotes/2026-w19/
“Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig.” - https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html
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