I don’t have hands-on experience with golang but based on what I know about it yes, they are.

> there seems to be a call to yield but its unclear what it really does

You mean “await”?

It waits for the completion of whatever is on the right side of “await”. If the result is already available, it just continues. If the result is not yet available (e.g. Task.Delay creates a task that will complete in some moment in the future), the control goes away from the async method to the scheduler. The scheduler can then run some other task on the same OS thread. When the result of that operation becomes available (in the sample code, when 1 second delay passes), the scheduler resumes execution of that async method, on the statement after the await.

> if they yield on any sleeps

No, not any sleep. You can call Thread.Sleep() which will put the whole OS thread to sleep. It’s up to programmers to avoid calling blocking APIs from their async methods, i.e. use await Task.Delay() instead of Thread.Sleep(), await stream.ReadAsync() instead of stream.Read(), and so on.