[boardwaalk]

They solve exactly the problem you describe; I'm not sure what you're missing. What are you thinking you can't do? I have a project where I've put C++ coroutines on top of libuv and I can do essentially anything I could do in JS/C#/Rust async/await with task/co_await/etc with the imperative style you'd expect.

You may have looked at them at too low a level. Check out something like cppcoro to see what you can do. I don't use it myself, but I've stolen a few things, like task<>, which is a pretty core thing that the stdlib does not provide.

Goroutines are not cooperative multitasking, by the way, they're non-OS/"green" threads. Until you do something silly like run CPU-bound code that doesn't hit any yield points and you have to put them in yourself (at least the last time I used Go, it's been awhile).

[harikb]

While the starvation behavior of cooperative green-threads isn’t ideal as native threads, the idea is that

1. Properly written code will perform well, whether async/await or Go style.

2. Making async easy makes one use it in more places. In additon having caller decide to run something sync or async also makes it way more useful. In Async/await model that can only work if all methods are declared async - very costly in complexity

[jimsimmons]

Good way to put what’s wrong with Python async and probably by extension C++ too. The sync-async in both direction need to be symmetrical for it to make sense. Right now in Python async can interact with Python sync quite comfortably but the opposite direction is a literal black hole. I have had to read up on how sync can interact with async multiple times but I’m still not sure what is the idiomatic way and it always feels like it’s on knife edge even when I get something working.

Obviously, the caveat is that I’m just stupid and don’t understand Python async well enough. But I have a feeling that this is common experience

[harikb]

No, it is not you.

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

[jimsimmons]

This is the millionth time I’ve come across this post. I always had assumed this post was about Typed / multiple Dispatch for whatever idiotic reason.

So glad that this has been well pointed out. Oof big relief