Swift’s tasks use cooperative cancellation, which means that although we can tell a task to stop work, the task itself is free to completely ignore that instruction and carry...

Every task can be created with a specific priority level, or it can inherit a priority from somewhere else. But in two specific circumstances, Swift will raise the priori...

Swift tasks can have a priority attached to them, such as .high or .background, but the priority can also be nil if no specific priority was assigned. This...

If you want to read the return value from a Task directly, you should read its value using await, or use try await if it has a throwing operation...

Swift’s Task struct has a static sleep() method that will cause the current task to be suspended for a set period of time. You need to call Task.sleep()&n...

If you create a new task using the regular Task initializer, your work starts running immediately and inherits the priority of the caller, any task local values, and its ...

Swift’s Task struct lets us start running some work immediately, and optionally wait for the result to be returned. And it is optional: sometimes you don’t ca...

Using async/await in Swift allows us to write asynchronous code that is easy to read and understand, but by itself it doesn’t enable us to run anything concurrently – even w...