Summary
You’re still here? That’s excellent! Good job on getting through all that background information. I know going through text that describes abstractions and code can be pretty daunting, but I hope you see why it’s so valuable for us to go through these higher-level topics now at the start of the book. We’ll get to the examples soon. I promise!
In this chapter, we went through a lot of information on how we can model and handle asynchronous operations in programming languages by using both OS-provided threads and abstractions provided by a programming language or a library. While it’s not an extensive list, we covered some of the most popular and widely used technologies while discussing their advantages and drawbacks.
We spent quite some time going in-depth on threads, coroutines, fibers, green threads, and callbacks, so you should have a pretty good idea of what they are and how they’re different from each other.
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