Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

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If you are interested in performing additional calculations on Promise<T>, you may find this small library useful. Mutex, producer-consumer separation (side-effect operation), signaling (flag control) ...