I had the weirdest realization a few days ago.Over the last few months, I’ve been studying threads and asynchronous programming. I’m not the only one: the software engineering industry is slowly coming to terms with the fact that hardware power is starting to plateau. The future of more efficient applications is going to come from the code, and not from the machine.But async has a built-in assumption that I hadn’t really given much thought. Until now.Here’s the thing: async programming isn’t abo...