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I've been using Swift to build the server-side of NLUDB.com and async/await is the biggest item on my wish list.

Maybe I just haven't learned proper EventLoopFuture-style development style, but you really seem to get stuck callback hell, similar to the early days of NodeJS. It's a bear on code readability.

Re: the sibling comment about Combine -- I've heard great things about Combine but AFAIK it's still part of Apple's platform-specific layer atop Swift so the small group of us using Swift atop Linux can't use it (yet?).



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