Swift is getting async, structured concurrency and actors

[Imperatorn]

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.
>
> [1] 
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0296-async-await.md
>
> [2] 
> https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/structured-concurrency/proposals/nnnn-structured-concurrency.md
>
> [3] 
> https://github.com/DougGregor/swift-evolution/blob/actors/proposals/nnnn-actors.md

+1

It would also make is easier for our team to migrate from C# to 
D. Today we have efforts which have stopped because async/await 
was missing 😢