Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today
Summary
Zig 0.16 introduces std.Io, a cross-platform I/O interface for concurrency, with std.Io.Threaded as the current implementation. The article contrasts traditional threading with a zio-based runtime to demonstrate scalable async I/O, including benchmarks for 10k tasks and notes on io_uring, epoll, and io evented work-in-progress.