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by int_19h
42 days ago
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.NET had green threads (fibers) in its first iteration. They were abandoned because practical use of .NET was also FFI-heavy - WinForms etc - and native code generally doesn't play well with non-native threads. The benefit of async is that it desugars into callbacks with state, which is something that can be easily expressed in terms of the C ABI (which is the de facto interop standard on all mainstream platforms). Which is why you can have async C# code calling into async C++ or Rust code, or for that matter async Python calling into async C#. Given that .NET was historically supposed to be a multi-language runtime, before they went all in on C#, async made a lot of sense. |
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