Async

Hush also provides a way to launch commands asynchronously, and then wait for their result at a later time. Traditional shells provide similar functionality through the ampersand operator.

To run a command block asynchronously, prefix it with an ampersand:

let handle = &{ echo Hello world! }
# Do some other work before calling join.
# This may be printed before or after "Hello world!".
std.print("Doing some work...")
# This will wait until the block runs to completion, and will return it's result.
let result = handle.join()
std.assert(result == nil)

Async blocks will start executing immediately, but Hush won’t wait for their completion until join is called, and will continue script execution instead. An async block will always result in a dict containing the join method, which will then return the block result (nil or error) when called.