Don't Forget To Flush by Andrew Kelley
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- Presented by Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Advanced. Deep dive for people who know the field.
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Systems programmingProgramming languagesZigNetworking and protocolsOperating systems
Andrew Kelley examines input/output streaming abstractions, analyzing data flow, error handling, and a unified interface design for I/O and multithreading.
Every programming language environment has an interface for streaming data. Using real world examples of compression, files, sockets, and network protocols, this talk critically examines a variety of strategies for designing an input/output abstraction. We'll watch the data closely as it flows through the pipeline, as well as examining how error conditions are handled. Finally, I'll draw a non-obvious connection between I/O and multithreading, and explain my evil/genius/ridiculous (take your pick) plan to put ALL I/O behind one massive interface, making a lot of people happy/angry (take your pick). andrewkelley.me/ ziglang.org/zsf/ Talk from Systems Distributed '25: systemsdistributed.comWhy it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended as an insightful talk by Zig's creator on the design of streaming I/O interfaces and systems programming abstractions.
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On “Can someone explain to me the new std.Io interface or point me to good resources where I can see it in action?”