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Stack traces were massively improved in 2.1. Using a good IDE (Rider or Visual Studio), debugging async/await code works as expected. Are you doing interop or calling unmanaged cod…

There is a resource tradeoff. async/await has a minor CPU/memory impact, but it can also free up threads to do other work during an I/O bound operation. Threads have their own reso…

How does async/await introduce complexity where threading wouldn’t? In my experience, the complexity is vastly reduced by not having to implement tricky asynchronous APIs (Task Par…

Awaiting a storage operation (ie. look up user) in C# will allow other calls to proceed until the I/O is available to read. Synchronous code locks you into the model of handling on…