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You can do the same in C++ on Windows with PPL, UNIX/Windows with Intel TBB, or any of the fiber/co-routine libraries.

Then there is the ongoing work to add async/await patterns into C++20.

As a matter of fact, you can do the same in assembly if you want to.

Notice how you can always have that answer when it comes to programming languages: you can do the same in. The point is that, the way it's made in go, is awfully handy.

I hardly see a difference from

    go func () { }

and

    Task.Run(() => { })

With the benefit that on the latter example, the runtime allows me to customise how scheduling is done.

Are those Tasks coroutines? If yes, do they yield on any sleeps?

These aspects are key to goroutines.

Yes they do, they are the building blocks for async/await, get a thread allocated from a thread pool when running, and you can control how the scheduling takes place, by providing your own scheduler implementation.

That is pretty cool, C++ has come a long way since I used it last about 15 years ago.

It seems like both languages are equally capable here, with C++ having more power and foot guns when required as usual.

The code snippet example I wrote was actually .NET with TPL.

C++ with PPL on Windows, would be

    task<T> handle = create_task([] { /* ... */ });

And with standard C++

    future<T> handle = std::async(std::launch::async, [] { /* ... */ });

In both cases, with C++20 it will be possible to co_await handle, which you can already play with on clang and VC++.

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