There's a lot of confusion about async/await, Task/TPL and asynchronous and parallel programming in general, so Jeremy Clark is on a mission to inform developers on how to use everything properly.

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...

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Some tasks in game development are not synchronous — they are asynchronous. This means they are not linearly executed within the game code. Some of these asynchronous tasks can require quite a long ...

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[Sandro Magi] noted that the async/await idiom has become more prevalent in programming recently. According to him, he first encountered it in C# but has found examples of it in JavaScript and Rust, ...

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Some developers tend to believe that the function written with async/await will always be executed synchronously. This is because the code looks like if we wait synchronously for the delayed operation ...