That's exactly it. It just enables code reuse. You still have to think about how your application will behave, but you won't have to use an async-flavored reimp

That's exactly it. It just enables code reuse. You still have to think about how your application will behave, but you won't have to use an async-flavored reimplementaion of another library. Case in point: zig-okredis works in both sync and async applicatons, and I don't have to maintain two codebases. https://github.com/kristoff-it/zig-okredis https://github.com/kristoff-it/zig-okredis I thought using "colorblind" in the title of my original blogpost would be a clear enough hint to the reader that the colors still exist, but I guess you can never be too explicit.