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After I used Go channels (https://go101.org/article/channel-use-cases.html), I feel async/await is much like a rigid toy. :)

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Can use System.Threading.Channels https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading... if you like that programming model

Do those channels support async? Since C# is built around async/await for scaling to large numbers of connections / tasks, they wouldn't be very useful if they didn't support async, but I'm not familiar enough with modern C# to figure out if they do or not.

Yes. It's a library that is fully async. We process millions of records/second using these.

Do you happen to have any public information on this approach, it sounds interesting but I'm not up on the C# world like I used to be.

This is the best overview article so far: https://ndportmann.com/system-threading-channels/

Thank you.

Yeah you have a triple for different use cases; the sync call is `TryRead` so its non-blocking; `ReadAsync` for async reading and `WaitToReadAsync` to wait for data to be available without reading (likely then followed by the non-blocking `TryRead` in usage)

Does it support select? Almost half of concurrrent programming use cases in Go are select related.

Yeah, at a guess you'd combine the multiple `WaitToReadAsync` with `await Task.WhenAny`; then use `TryRead` to run though the bunch of channels in a non-blocking way.

Could even use the return `await Task.WhenAny` to tell you the specific one to check. Shouldn't be a very hard construct to make; to make it more select like.

good. It looks it is much like the reflect.Select (https://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#Select) in Go.

It has the benefit that any number of tasks can be selected, but the efficiency is not good as hard-coded select blocks.

But it looks C# Task.WhenAny has much less use case variants than Go select block.

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