task_review

Use Case

Allows code to be executed in an independent process that is OTP-compliant
- Can be supervised
- Improved error handling

Task Functions

Task.start/1 - Creates a new fire-and-forget process
- Non-blocking - Task process does not block the caller
- Does not return
Task.async/1 - Spawn a process that performs some calculation that returns a value
Task.await/1 - Used to receive a value from a process that is spawned with Task.async/1