On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 05:40:06 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 04:26:42 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
[...]
I’ll throw in my 2 rubbles.
I actually worked on a VM that has async/await feature built-in
(Dart language).
It is a plain syntax sugar for Future/Promise explicit
asynchrony where async automatically return Future[T] or
Observable[T] (the latter is async stream).
[...]
This is exactly what async/await in C# does.
I saw this idea in Jeffry Richter's Power Threading library
(https://github.com/Wintellect/PowerThreading) sometime in the
mid/late 2000, where he used the C# 'yield' keyword to generate
the state machine code. When async/await was added MSFT either
took his idea directly or at the very least got inspired by it.
