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I don't want to be the negative guy, but this is news about two unfinished implementations. There is a lot of work needed for this to be considered done. For example, no networking in the GCD version yet. And as these are being implemented, the interface stops being an interface, the vtable keeps growing, and it's just the current snapshot of what's needed by the std implementations.

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They aknowlege that at the beggining of the post?

> They are now available to tinker with, by constructing one’s application using std.Io.Evented. They should be considered experimental because there is important followup work to be done before they can be used reliably and robustly:

And then they proceed to list 6 important pending work to be done.

It doesn't say "minor" details like networking not being implemented :)

They probably probably thought that this warning was clear enough:

"should be considered experimental because there is important followup work to be done"

I guess not clear enough to some people.

I think another way of thinking about this interface is: it’s kind of like an abstraction over Linux system calls and ntdll. It’s naturally gonna have a kind of subset of all the useful calls, with some wrapping.

I don’t see anything wrong with this, it’s kind of how Windows forces developers to use DLL to access syscalls (the syscall numbers can change) which IMO is a good architectural decision.

Except it's not. I've implemented it, over its multiple iterations, so I'm familiar with it. It's an interface to satisfy the needs of the Zig compiler. It's heavily lacking for use in server applications.

Except it is not. The Zig compiler does not need this. I am not sure if this API will work out but it is not for the Zig compiler.

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