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Why Microsoft Believes that VB and C# Need an Asynchronous Syntax

Topics
Parallel Programming,
Language Design,
.NET

The new Async CPT for VB and C# looks like it may actually make it into the core language. But with all the emphasis on multi-core systems, why is Microsoft investing so heavily in syntax for designed specifically for making single-threaded asynchronous programming easier?

Axum, Microsoft’s Approach to Parallelism

Topics
.NET,
Language

Axum, previously known as Maestro, is a Microsoft incubation language project meant to provide a parallel programming model for .NET through isolation, actors and message passing. The language borrows many concepts from Erlang but with a C#-like syntax.