> Is async/await a good idea for an OS kernel, even a toy one? You might want to look at Joe Duffy's posts about Microsoft's Midori OS. In particular the post

> Is async/await a good idea for an OS kernel, even a toy one? You might want to look at Joe Duffy's posts about Microsoft's Midori OS. In particular the post "Asynchronous Everything": http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/ http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/ Their findings sound pretty compelling to me. Personally I'm convinced that eventually we'll see much more system-level use of async/await style mechanisms. Perhaps with Rust, perhaps with C++ once coroutines land in C++20.