Roman's talk on coroutines was really good too. H...

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[carlw]

Roman's talk on coroutines was really good too. He compared and contrasted some of the other coroutine implementations, going through the 60's and 70's before multithreading took over.

I think the coroutines are important in JavaFX coding because it makes a nicer pattern where have a sequence of tasks interleaved with UI interactions. To do this in both JavaFX and TorandoFX, you'll need the Task class.

Ex, something like this for a user interaction in between two tasks

async {
doSomethingLong()
} ui {
openModal()
async {
doSomethingElse()
} ui {
finishUp()
}
}

Would be turned into

doSomethingLong()