Dew Drop – January 21, 2026 (#4587)
A daily tech link roundup covering web development, AI tools, .NET updates, Windows utilities, and software engineering trends.
A daily tech link roundup covering web development, AI tools, .NET updates, Windows utilities, and software engineering trends.
Explores using Swift's defer keyword to manage resources in async and throwing functions, improving code safety and elegance.
A tutorial on creating a custom SwiftUI AsyncButton that supports Swift Concurrency, handles async tasks, and prevents multiple taps.
The .NET team concludes its async2 experiment, exploring a new runtime-based implementation of async/await for improved efficiency and flexibility.
Explains how the C# compiler transforms async/await code into a state machine, detailing the process with a simplified example.
An update on Meridian, a Swift on the Server web framework inspired by SwiftUI, covering async/await support and WebSocket integration.
A deep-dive tutorial explaining JavaScript Promises from the ground up, covering their necessity and how to use them effectively.
C# 13 may allow the use of 'ref' and 'unsafe' in iterators and async methods, addressing current limitations with references and spans.
Explains a subtle async/await problem with List.ForEach in .NET and provides a solution using a custom ForEachAsync extension method.
A deep dive into the internal workings, history, and implementation of async/await in Swift, exploring its design and gotchas.
A guide to creating and unit testing asynchronous commands in the Vapor framework for Swift, including a workaround for async support.
A guide to refactoring a private callback-based Swift API to use async/await, using continuations for a cleaner codebase.
A guide to refactoring callback-based network APIs in Swift to use the modern async/await syntax for cleaner, more readable code.
Explains why async/await in ASP.NET Core improves scalability by freeing worker threads during I/O, not raw performance.
A guide to handling multiple API calls in JavaScript, covering independent parallel requests and sequential dependent requests using async/await and Promise.all.
Announcing the fifth edition of Advanced Swift, updated for Swift 5.6 with new concurrency content, property wrappers, and a hardcover print edition.
A tutorial on using the SwiftHttp library to build async HTTP API clients in Swift, featuring async/await support and request handling.
Compares Caolan's Async.js library with native async/await for handling asynchronous operations in Node.js, discussing readability and use cases.
Explains how to implement automatic retry logic for asynchronous operations in Swift using the new concurrency model, as a replacement for Combine's retry operator.
A guide to creating Combine-compatible wrappers for async/await APIs in Swift, enabling integration between different concurrency models.