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by jayd16 702 days ago
You're trading complexity for expressiveness but the await keyword syntax is essentially unwrap sugar. Dereferencing a pointer is similar syntax.

It's possible to write a language where awaiting a task is done through a method on the task type. I don't think this is ideal because the whole reason you're using explicit yield points is so you can tell when something yields. Using method syntax makes that harder to see at a glance.