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Re:What's new in the .NET 11 runtime by jayd16 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:15AM (#50441569)
Is this a joke, like "hen's teeth"? Those languages don't have async/await.
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Re:What's new in the .NET 11 runtime by pjmlp on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:33AM (#50441814)
No joke at all, not that I said "like implementation", not that they have async/await.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398

Be sure to read all the way to the bottom,

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Re:What's new in the .NET 11 runtime by shellac on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:50AM (#50442088)
They don't need to mark functions as needing special compilation / rewriting to support asynchronous use since the runtime provides the necessary mechanism to pause and resume (e.g. stackful continuations). So 'async' is unnecessary and 'await' can be a library function (or remain a keyword of course).
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