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saagarjha 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

I use async/await for my CPU bound problems and it works fine

worik 5 months ago [–]

So long as you "await"

Not really concurrent

frizlab 5 months ago | | [–]

Not very well known, but Swift has two builtin concurrency systems (in addition to the very well known async/await for parallelism): async let (not very flexible) and task groups (much more so).

saagarjha 5 months ago | | [–]

You don’t have to await immediately!

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