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I've used open(2) and the io_uring openat :) I use generic readers and writers every day, but they don't have any runtime dispatch. The question was "Why would

I've used open(2) and the io_uring openat :) I use generic readers and writers every day, but they don't have any runtime dispatch. The question was "Why would you do anything except vtables and runtime dispatch?" One answer is that my code that uses generic readers and writers and gets monomorphized gets to also be generic over async-ness.

saagarjha 4y ago
Except in the kernel, of course.
vore 4y ago
There you go, actually: you can have your clean code cake and eat it too if you have the right language abstractions (like parametric polymorphism).