Swift is getting async, structured concurrency and actors

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 11 December 2020 at 20:08:30 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> As the title says, Swift is getting language support for: 
> async/await [1], structured concurrency [2] and actors [3]. The 
> implementation has already started, available in master.
>
> Seems like D is more or less the only language without language 
> support for async/await now. But perhaps it's possible to 
> implement only in library code. Kotlin has language support for 
> coroutines, but async/await is implemented in library code. D 
> already has fibers (kind of like coroutines) implemented in 
> library code.

For D it would make a lot of sense to just add C++ style 
coroutines. LDC/GDC could just look at the C++ implementation and 
borrow it.