[Concurrency] async/await + actors: cancellation

[Moximillian (Mox)]

@Jan_Tuitman

I am asking this, because once Async/await is there, it will probably immediately become very popular, but the use case of having to abort a task from the same location where you start the task, is of course a very common one. Think of a view controller downloading some resources and then being moved of the screen by the user.

I don’t think other programming languages with async/await support cancel either. It’s just not part of that concept. There are many other asynchronous frameworks / concepts that are better suited for those use cases that need cancelling.