Comment by elcritch
8 hours ago
> Zig just takes a firm stance against implicit logic
I bought that as Zig's M.O., but then came the automatic "async/IO" colorless functions which is a huge chunk of implicit and hidden logic.
That's more implicit logic than what's in say JavaScript async AFAICT. Arbitrary int sizes with implicit casting rules, etc. More recently was the attempts of memory safety via an some sort of (optional) implicit GC mode. Personally I don't get it.
Are you sure you're up to date?
The async design changed multiple times, and the current approach is that of requiring passing an I/O interface that encapsulates the logic, same approach as for passing around an allocator.
This effectively makes all I/O bound code "quasi-async", and it's all explicit and the caller is in control.