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This covers the asynchronous programming model supported by various programming languages, using the async and await keywords.

Several programming languages support an asynchronous programming model using co-routines, with the async and await keywords.

Support for the model was added to

  • C# and VB in VS2012
  • Python in 3.5
  • ECMAScript in ECMAScript 2017
  • Rust in 1.39
  • C++ in C++20
  • Swift in Swift 5.5

C# and Visual Studio

Asynchronous programming with async and await was introduced with C# 5.0 in Visual Studio 2012. The run-time support for this language concept is a part of .NET 4.5 / Windows Phone 8 / Windows 8.x Store Runtime.

It's also possible to use async/await and target .NET 4.0 / Windows Phone 7.1 / Silverlight 4 / MonoTouch / MonoDroid / Portable Class Libraries, with Visual Studio 2012+ and Microsoft.Bcl.Async NuGet package, which is licensed for production code.

Async CTP add-on for VS2010 SP1 is also available, but it is not suitable for product development.

Python

Similar syntax was introduced to Python 3.5 (see PEP 492 - Coroutines with async and await syntax.

Previously, it was possible to write co-routines using generators; with the introduction of await and async co-routines were lifted to a native language feature.

C++

Coroutines is introduced in C++20. Using the co_await operator results in suspended execution until resumed. Values can be returned using co_yield and co_return keywords which correspond to suspending and completing execution, respectively.

Swift

The async-await pattern was introduced in Swift 5.5 at WWDC 2021, as part of a broader Swift concurrency initiative. Historically, asynchronous patterns were achieved through the use of Grand Central Dispatch (GCD, ) and “completion handler closure” patterns. The Swift concurrency aims to provide a more intuitive asynchronous coding environment.

ECMAScript

The async and await keywords were first reserved in the ECMAScript 2016 specification and then their use and behavior was fully-specified in the ECMAScript 2017 specification.

Historically, ECMAScript offered “promises”, an improvement over traditional callback patterns, where this sort of looping and exception handling is challenging. Task.js and similar libraries further refined promises, to further simplify the process. But with async functions, all the remaining boilerplate is removed, leaving only the semantically meaningful code in the program text.

Asynchronous vs multi-threaded

The async-await pattern simplifies the writing of asynchronous code. While it is frequently used in multi-threaded environments, it should be noted that “asynchronous” and “multi-threaded” represent two different concepts. The async and await keywords merely allow us to represent relationships and dependencies between asynchronous tasks in a more natural manner, which may be distinct from the mechanism to run code on a different thread. The async-await pattern offers great utility in a multi-threaded environment, but it is not, itself, the multi-threaded mechanism.

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