Pushing 'await' to the Limits: Unleashing Multi-Threading Power in .NET | .NET Days 2024

Summary

The presentation discusses asynchronous programming in C# using async/await, highlighting its ability to simplify callback-based code into a more sequential style. While async/await excels at sequential asynchronous operations, it's not designed for data parallelism. The speaker proposes combining techniques like `IAsyncEnumerable`, custom task-like types, and extension methods to achieve parallel processing with a linear syntax, drawing a parallel to how OpenMP in C++ allows parallelization within standard loops. The practical takeaway is that by leveraging these mechanisms, developers can write more natural and readable code for parallel tasks.