Future

Definitions

1. A placeholder for a value that will be available at some point in the future, representing the result of an asynchronous computation. Called Future in Rust/Java/Dart, Promise in JavaScript, and Task in C#.

   In plain English: An IOU from your program — it says 'I don't have the answer yet, but I will eventually, and you can keep doing other stuff in the meantime.'

   Example: "The function returns a Future<User> — you await it when you actually need the user data."

Related Terms

• Coroutine
• Event Loop
• Promise
• Task
• Promise.all
• Reactive Programming
• Redux Thunk
• Async Lock
• Async Pattern
• Async Pool
• Async Task