What Andrew Kelley thinks about design

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Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.

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1. 31 Jul 2026

   Our readingComputers and software should always serve the person directly using them, not the interests of third parties.

   Their wordsComputers should always serve the person directly interacting with them.

   ↗Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation)andrewkelley.me 2nd of 3 in this piece

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3. 29 Oct 2025

   Our readingReusable code should take an allocator parameter only if it allocates, and an I/O parameter only if it performs I/O.

   Their wordsReusable code should accept an Allocator parameter if it needs to allocate, and it should accept an Io parameter if it needs to perform I/O operations.

   ↗Zig's New Async I/O (Text Version)andrewkelley.me