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Re:Ask HN: Why can't await be used from non-async functions? by endorphine on Monday February 28, 2022 @04:00PM (#30505066)
Can you elaborate on why there's a risk of a deadlock?
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Re:Ask HN: Why can't await be used from non-async functions? by Merad on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:59PM (#30509317)
The very short version is that by synchronously blocking on the async method your thread may end up holding a resource (thread context info or the calling thread itself) that the async method needs in order to run its continuations. Here are a couple of more detailed explanations:

https://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/07/dont-block-on-async-c...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/await-and-ui-and-dead...

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't await be used from non-async functions? by endorphine on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:05AM (#30510629)
Now that's pretty much the answer I was looking for, I believe. This makes things much clearer!
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