Title says it all what do these two “common” lua terms mean and what’s their importance in luau. Anybody care to explain? Please feel free to I couldn’t find any sources that explained them in a way I understood well
They aren’t LuaU specific terms. You can actually use them in real life too btw
But anyways,
Synchronous means that your code will have to wait until the previous line of code finishes running
For example, if I have this code:
for i, v in … do
-- random placeholder
end
print("Hello world!")
print("Hello world!")
will have to wait until the in pairs loop finishes
and…
Asynchronous just means that your code can run even if the code before it hasn’t ran / isn’t finished running
task.desynchronize()
for i, v in … do
-- another placeholder
end
print("Hello world!")
This will make it so that all of the code after the desynchronization can run at the same time AKA parallel
So that print statement will execute while the in pairs loop is also executing
Oh and by the way, if you want to make your code ahead async again, you can easily just call task.synchronize
Or you could use Actor
s which I won’t dive into here but they’re useful
Got it that makes sense I understand the concept I am just not familiar with people using terms like “asynchronous” or synchronous to denote eg label them
And the will definitely be checking task.synchronize and asynchronize i am fimilair with actors their just not something I really use
Does task.synchronize and async only work in a script parented to an actor?
Sorry for the late response
Nah you can use task.synchronize
and task.desynchronize
without an Actor
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