Zig's New Async I/O
Asynchronicity is not concurrency. In the Zig Roadmap 2026 stream Andrew announced a new way of doing I/O, let’s see what are the goals of this upcoming design and how that relates to the revival of async / await in Zig. The new I/O Interface The most notable change to Zig is the introduction of a new interface in charge of all I/O operations. Most importantly, the Io interface is now expected to be provided by the caller, just like we already do with Allocator . Old Zig: const std = @impor