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’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...

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 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...

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, ...

Swift’s task groups are collections of tasks that work together to produce a single result. Each task inside the group must return the same kind of data, but if you use enum assoc...

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...

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...

Swift’s task groups can be cancelled in one of three ways: if the parent task of the task group is cancelled, if you explicitly call cancelAll() on the group, or if one of your ...

If you’re writing a command-line tool with Swift, you can use async code in two ways: if you're using main.swift you can immediately make and use async functions as norm...