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Yeah, context is basically a cancellation token with the same downsides and a bunch of unrelated features piled on (because it came from a bunch of people needing to work around limitations getting together and deciding to put all their hacks in one place, but I digress). But from a certain perspective all functions in go are async by default, so we get to dodge that one.



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