Stephen Cleary — Asynchronous streams

Asynchronous iteration landed in JavaScript last year, and C# is following up with its async streams. This presentation looks at why these new asynchronous streams are useful, how they are different from existing libraries like and RxJS, and how to use them in your projects. We’ll start with a conceptual overview of why asynchrony is important, and the impact that async/await has had on modern languages. Then we’ll address one of the common shortcomings of async/await: the fact that it only