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Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures

Oxide and Friends

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I've Got a Production Outage Right Now That I Want to Debug

The first time I understand, I understood asianca wait was actually when I use the model that the SIG programming language has. When you do an async call on function, what you get back from that is a stack frame. You save that stack frame later when you want the value of whatever you had executed, you await that stack frame. And then that you, that's what turns into the value. It's essentially the same idea as a future or promise, but it's explicit about what's under the hood.

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