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...

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...

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 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...

Swift has a special task group type called a discarding task group, which has a very specialized function: tasks that complete are automatically discarded and destroyed, ...

If you’re executing a long-running task that has few if any suspension points, for example if you’re repeatedly iterating over an intensive loop, you can call Task.yield()&n...

Swift’s async let, Task, and task groups all solve a similar problem: they allow us to create concurrency in our code so the system is able to run them efficiently. Beyo...

Previously I talked about the concept of thread explosion, which is when you create many more threads than CPU cores and the system struggles to manage them effectively. Howev...

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...

SwiftUI provides a task() modifier that starts a new task as soon as a view appears, and automatically cancels the task when the view disappears. This is sort of the equi...