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In Kotlin, only the outer-most wrapping 'suspend' function swap needs to be wrapped; and when you're writing web servers and such, that's handled in the server middleware and so all your code can be `suspend fun blahblah()`

That's eerily similar to what (green) threads are.

I’ve always thought async await is just a less clunky implementation of green threads. Not as a feature parity replacement, but trying to fill the same niche.

Yeah, fully agree with that. To me this is akin to writing line numbers in old BASIC dialects. The language makes the user do something that ought to be automated.

>implicit async/await

I keep suspecting C# will be the place where we see this, but probably not for another couple years.

We might not be that far away already. There is this issue[1] on Github, where Microsoft and the community discuss some significant changes.

There is still a lot of questions unanswered, but initial tests look promising.

Ref: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/94620

We have it in Zig, Lua, Python, C, etc.