Async-Await in Vertx with Project Loom

[August Nagro]

That's understandable.

I hope eventually the ability to await Futures (or Rx, Mutiny, ZIO, etc)
can be expressed, because it adds a lot of value to these ecosystems. You
can 'code like you're sync', while still getting a Monad when you want,
like to configure retry and timeout.

With regards to a custom scheduler, can you elaborate on that idea?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 3:31 AM Ron Pressler <ron.pressler at oracle.com> wrote:

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> > On 18 Oct 2021, at 14:40, August Nagro <augustnagro at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks for the info.. that's a bummer. Is it a permanent API change?
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> For Continuation in its current form — yes. It is not safe and could even
> result in miscompilation if not
> used carefully (the JIT compilers are allowed to assume that the identity
> of the current thread does not change
> within a method). Many of its use-cases could be achieved with a custom
> scheduler, although, depending on
> how much time we have to consider that API, it might not make the first
> Preview, either.
>
> — Ron
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>