Willing Suspension of Disbelief
summary
Concrete explanation of Swift async/await clarifies where code actually suspends and what the runtime does: shows how async let lets unrelated lines run while awaiting a value, how wrapping work in a Task moves execution off the current thread, how actors serialize access to shared state to avoid races, and how async sequences (streams) deliver multiple values over time. Comparison with Grand Central Dispatch and the pairing of async throws with try/await makes error and suspension points explicit and predictable.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Willing Suspension of Disbelief
- 1:13M.A.N.T.I.S
- 1:23Snow Leopard
- 1:51Grand Central Dispatch is a revolutionary, pervasive approach to multicore processing
- 18:25Let's begin with a class
- 25:45async and friends is not GCD
- 28:14Willing suspensions
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