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Let's say you are building a GUI application with Egui.You want to make start a certain task when you click a button. You can simply write code like this. if ui.button("click me").clicked() { start\_task(); } But what if that task takes 10 second...

May 18, 2025 · 3 min read · bakus-tech-blog.hashnode.dev  
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