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async: Is it possible to have a background task?
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Description
I believe the answer is "no", but I wanted to confirm. I believe this is likely used by libraries that do some sort of connection pooling or similar where a background task might be performing maintenance on behalf of the pool or similar. This is somewhat tangentially related to https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/issues/459 as well.
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Research direction
Start by reading issue #460 and the linked WebAssembly/component-model issue #459, then review the surrounding async and component-model design discussions. Determine whether the model supports background tasks for use cases such as connection-pool maintenance, and document the supported behavior or the design needed to define it.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- wasm
- Domain
- backend-api-design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100