Then async comes along and you can't use `out` in async methods :) Thus (anonymous) tuples were introduce so we can do it Go/Rust-style: async Task<(bool,

Then async comes along and you can't use `out` in async methods :) Thus (anonymous) tuples were introduce so we can do it Go/Rust-style: async Task<(bool, T)> Foo<T>(T value) { /* do something async like a web request or file read etc. */ var aThing = await GetAThing<T>(value); return (aThing != null, aThing); }