Async/await (Swift Evolution Proposal SE-0296)

McCall, J., & Gregor, D. (2020). Async/await (Swift Evolution Proposal SE-0296).

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Year

2020

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https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0296-async-await.md

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• Callback Hell
  • . iOS Objective-C and early Swift — completion-handler nesting for chained network and animation calls before structured concurrency

    This sourceThe Swift Evolution async/await proposal's motivation section, where completion-handler chaining is a deeply-nested 'pyramid of doom' before the separate structured-concurrency proposal.

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    “Modern Swift development involves a lot of asynchronous (or "async") programming using closures and completion handlers, but these APIs are hard to use.”

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