Comment by com2kid

The alternative is to jump through a bunch of hoops to hide the "coloring" behind some opaque abstraction that is complicated and that will still get in the way when things go wrong.

Everyone complained when async IO was done with callbacks, so sugar was added to the callbacks, and now everyone has spent over a decade complaining about what flavor of sugar tastes best.

Y'all at Zig have a solution, I trust Zig's solution will be a good one (zig is lots of fun to use as a language) but at the end of the day, IO is slow, that needs to get hidden somehow, or not.

Everyone should have to do embedded for awhile and setup their own DMA controller operations. Having async IO offloaded to an actual hardware block is... A different type of amusing.