[swagonomixxx]

I agree with GP, I feel a similar disdain when I hear that features that are merged into the standard are for the "library implementors". Boost.Coroutine and Boost.Asio have been around for how long? At least a decade? I think there has been more than enough experience with coroutines and async programming to get coroutines in standard C++ done so that at least the "average" C++ programmer can grok them.

[bluGill]

The problem is coroutines need compiler support before you can play with them. Boost coroutines were rejected because doing coroutines only as a library just isn't pretty (it works, but nobody liked it), so looking at other languages the current direction was decided. Only now that you can do something can libraries spend the decades to figure out how it all fits into C++.

[gpderetta]

The problem is that it took forever to standardize the internal language-level machinery that the committee run out of time to standardize the user level library bits. Instead of delaying coroutines again (they were originally scheduled to be part of C++17, but then they were taken out of the standard), they decided to merge what they had into the standard.