Task – Elixir v1.6.5Elixir v1.6.5 Task View Source Conveniences for spawning and awaiting tasks. Tasks are processes meant to execute one particular action throughout their lifetime, often with little or no communication with other processes. The most common use case for tasks is to convert sequential code into concurrent code by computing a value asynchronously: task = Task.async(fn -> do_some_work() end) res = do_s
