D and Async I/O

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 20:05 +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> On 2020-05-12 11:23, Russel Winder wrote:
> 
> > As far as I can tell D has no futures… 
> 
> Future and async in vibe.d [1]. Future in Mecca [2].
> 
> [1] https://vibed.org/api/vibe.core.concurrency/async
> [2] 
> https://github.com/weka-io/mecca/blob/0593a35dd1a9978855d7db349fc1172f04cf8013/src/mecca/reactor/sync/future.d#L23

D needs something at the language level on which Vibe.d and Mecca build. This
is a lesson from Rust, Kotlin, Python, etc. worth taking up. 

Unfortunately, I can't see D changing because it seems not enough people with
interest in developing the language have the resource/interest in this. :-(

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Russel.
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