alt Hacker NewsThat’s part of it. Then you add a thread pool to dispatch your tasks into to mitigate the cost of a thread start. Then you run into blocking problems and are like “I wish I had some keyword to express when a function needed to be run on the thread pool”. Then you’ve done a speed run of the past 40 years of research.
The 40 years of research was actually in OS theory so that you could write normal code and async was abstracted away.
A thread pool is not a research project.