It's Critical: Concurrent programming as a sane programming model (or how I met critical section)

We mostly hear about concurrency as a more performant replacement for threads or multi-processing. But the hidden gem of concurrent programming is how sane concurrent code, and how easy it is to reason about shared state.

In this talk we'll be building a toy async-await framework of our own. Building this ourselves allows us to grok concurrency from the ground up, and understand its value when given to us as an existing framework