In a recent blog post, Eric Niebler gets inside the soon-to-be-standard async programming model and shows why you should care.

What are senders good for, anyway?

From the article:

At the heart of P2300 is a simple, elegant (IMHO) core that brings many benefits, but it’s hard to see that forest for all the trees.

So let’s make this concrete. In this post, I’ll show how to bring a crusty old C-style async API into the world of senders, and why you might want to do that.