Coroutines are doable if you're programming directly in assembly, but if you want to do it in C-like structured languages, it turns out that it's really tricky: the whole concept of those languages are about having a single stack and hierarchical lexical structure. You can do coroutines in languages like this, but unless you want to do nasty things with longjmp and manually manipulating the stack pointer, they simply aren't built for it. You can build structured languages with first-class support for constructs with coroutines, but it took a couple of decades of programming language development for that to happen. Even today, most of the languages that support coroutines (C++20 included), only has support for the stackless kind. Basically the only languages with full stackful coroutine support in wide use are Lua and (sort-of) Go.
C with Classes had them from the beginning, as Stroustrup liked them in Simula, but then (like many other things) had to take them out of the language after user feedback.
Re stackless coroutines and language support, while it is relatively straightforward to have stackfull coroutines as a library, the stackless kind in practice needs to be implemented as a language feature.
Aren't Javascript Generators also coroutines?
But C++ coroutines don't seem too incompatible with the level of OOP you already get in C++, no?
... no. coroutines are not supposed to be used in, like, more than an extremely small fraction of your codebase if you want to keep your code understandable
but how often do you need concurrency and parallelism outside of handling network requests and performing some complicated math algorithm (which may be in a lib that you don't touch anyways, e.g. FFT>) ?
e.g. most UI code has to run on the main thread due to macOS / Windows limitations, and in most UI software it is extremely rare to have the kind of chains of callbacks whose readability gets improved by coroutines.
Good article though.