https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51617
torvald at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |torvald at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #11 from torvald at gcc dot gnu.org --- ISO C++ SG1 was close to deprecating std::async for other reasons, but there was too much objection to this from other parts of the committee; the main concern was that there is no replacement for the functionality. Even though the executors proposal is still being discussed and not part of any published TS yet, the parallelism TS V1 is being published. Thus, I'm not sure whether spending too much time is justified, given the potentially short-lived importance of current async().