Comment by oefrha

The thing about context is it can be a lot more than a cancellation mechanism. You can attach anything to it—metadata, database client, logger, whatever. Even Io and Allocator if you want to. Signatures are future-proof as long as you take a context for everything.

At the end of the day you have to pass something for cooperative multitasking.

Of course it’s also trivial to work around if you don’t like the pattern, “very discouraged” or not.