Tasks aren't actually lightweight :frown: #19526
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| not part of the language. This means that in the future, other concurrency | ||
| libraries can be written for Rust to help in specific scenarios. Here's an | ||
| example of creating a task: | ||
| Rust's concurrency primitive is called a **task**. Tasks are similar to |
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My thought process was basically 'tasks are threads but our type system prevents some stuff that makes them safer than threads in other languages, and if they are threads, that calls into question why they aren't just called threads, and they're going to be at some point, but then we are gonna revise all this anyway, soooooo whatever.'
I wouldn't mind if it just said that though.=
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It doesn't really matter since they're about to be renamed.
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The rustdoc file prefix for constants is "constant" not "const"
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Fixes #19402.