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		Nullabillity on Nov 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta It's not. That's the problem with the thread API that Loom is so dead set on preserving, and the big improvement that promises/async/await provide over threads.

za3faran on Nov 24, 2022 [–]

How does async/await improve on managing mutable state across threads of execution (tasks/promises/etc?)

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