The general use case being: creating a new thread.
task.spawn has the special property that it fires the callback “immediately through the engine scheduler”.
Coroutines don’t have this property (AFAIK). It just creates a plain and old thread / coroutine.
I’d assume it would be coroutine.wrap, but maybe coroutines haven been superseded or something like that. What is the best practice here?
Use task.spawn when you need to perform an operation asynchronously, ensuring that it doesn’t disrupt the game’s responsiveness or cause lag by blocking the main thread.
coroutine.wrap is useful when you want to treat a regular function as a coroutine or when you need a convenient way to encapsulate coroutine logic within a function. However, it doesn’t offer immediate scheduling behavior like task.spawn.
if you need immediate asynchronous execution through the Roblox scheduler, use task.spawn. For managing complex control flow and cooperative multitasking, employ coroutines. coroutine.wrap is handy for wrapping functions to be called as coroutines but doesn’t provide immediate scheduling behavior. Choose the method that best fits your specific use case to ensure efficient and responsive behavior
Apparently, it was neither task.spawn nor coroutine.wrap (for the use case I mentioned). It was task.defer.
Use coroutines when you want more control of what’s being executed.
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