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Asynchrony is not concurrency

(kristoff.it)
289 points kristoff_it | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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raluk ◴[18 Jul 25 20:46 UTC] No.44609651[source]▶
One thing that most languages are lacking is expressing lazy return values. -> await f1() + await f2() and to express this concurently requres manually handing of futures.
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1. zmj ◴[18 Jul 25 21:30 UTC] No.44610056[source]▶
That's because f2's result could depend on whether f1 has executed.