World Congress 2023 • Sep 27, 2023

Coroutine explained yet again 60 years later

Mikhail Maslo

Why is a 60-year-old compiler concept driving modern concurrency? Discover how stackless coroutines transform messy callbacks into clean, highly scalable async flows.

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