One advantage of async/await is that its easier to cancel things. For example, this leads to the design pattern where you have multiple futures and you want to select the one that finishes first and cancel the rest.
In regular threaded programming, cancellation is a bit more painful as you need to have some type of cancellation token used each time the thread waits for something. This a) is more verbose and b) can lead to bugs where you forget to implement the cancellation logic.
In regular threaded programming, cancellation is a bit more painful as you need to have some type of cancellation token used each time the thread waits for something. This a) is more verbose and b) can lead to bugs where you forget to implement the cancellation logic.