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# Coroutine explained yet again 60 years later

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

- **Speakers:** Mikhail Maslo
- **Event:** World Congress 2023
- **Published:** September 27, 2023
- **Duration:** 30:43
- **URL:** https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/690-coroutine-explained-yet-again-60-years-later
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