<!here|@here>: Hello everybody, I’d like to sha...

# language-proposals

[abreslav]

<!here|@here>:

Hello everybody,

I’d like to share some information about async/await and Kotlin.

On the bright side: we are going to support async/await in one of the future versions of the language.

On the difficult side: to be able to do it later, we'd better reserve the syntax now, and this means that async becomes a keyword.
In particular, libraries (including Kovenant and Anko) that currently have their own functions names async will not be able to use them as async { … }, which is unfortunate.

A workaround for these libraries would be saying async() { … } instead.