> Am 06.06.2016 um 00:59 schrieb Charles Srstka <[email protected]>:
> 
>> On Jun 5, 2016, at 5:46 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 05.06.2016 um 20:31 schrieb Charlie Monroe via swift-evolution 
>>> <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>> While I agree with Michael that nowadays, a lot of stuff that doesn't need 
>>> to be, is done async, which leads to a giant thread pool per app and 
>>> developers nowadays do not think of the cost of inter-thread communication 
>>> (i.e. each dispatch_(a)sync has its cost, even though it's a light-weight 
>>> thread), I agree with Charles that something like suggested does indeed 
>>> help debugging issues with multi-thread apps.
>>> 
>> 
>> I agree that it may help in a few cases. But I think the change is "not 
>> significant enough to warrant a change in Swift". It adds yet another 
>> keyword to the language that every new dev has to learn about, and the 
>> problem it solves can more elegantly be solved by writing more elegant code.
> 
> Okay, what’s the “more elegant” way to write a function that uses networking 
> or XPC, or that requires user feedback from a sheet?

That's really hard to answer in the general case. I think real proposals should 
contain concrete, realistic examples that show the benefit of the proposal. 
It's really hard to argue against a proposal if there is no such example. User 
feedback from a sheet is one of the few examples where asynchronous programming 
makes sense: But I cannot see how a `@required` annotation would be useful in 
that setting.

-Michael

> 
> Charles
> 

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