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   Coyote (coyote@social.singing.dog)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 13:02:44 JST Coyote

   Has anyone found a compelling use for C++ coroutines? I check every couple of months and every time it always seems like coroutines require huge supporting libraries or are trivially replaceable with a lambda just for a slightly different syntax. It feels like they're going to be the new exceptions.

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 13:02:41 JST Sexy Moon

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     • Rusty Crab
     @RustyCrab @Coyote use them on things like 8 bit chips where you don't get much processing power.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 13:02:42 JST Rusty Crab

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     @Coyote coroutines are niche but insanely useful for their niche. Specifically if you are making finite state machines they take pretty horrible code and make it very VERY simple to read.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 13:04:03 JST Sexy Moon

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     • Rusty Crab
     @RustyCrab @Coyote oh I Was thinking of protothreads
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 13:06:25 JST Sexy Moon

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     • Rusty Crab
     @RustyCrab @Coyote are they like generators
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 13:06:26 JST Rusty Crab

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     • Sexy Moon
     @Moon @Coyote nah this is cooperative multithreading which is something terribly underutilized in programming as a whole. It allows you to write regular looking functions that execute over time without any of the dangers of memory corruption, race conditions etc