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by uniqueuid 1205 days ago
Perhaps I just don't get them, but task groups never really made sense to me.

The whole beauty of async tasks is that you can spawn, retry, and consume them lazily. When you create a task group, you again end up waiting on a single long-running last task, desperately trying to fix individual failures and retries that hold up the entire group.

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Here's why task groups may be a good idea https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...