Naming of coroutines/awaitables and their handles about usim HOT 2 CLOSED

Naming in other frameworks:

There is generally no flavour name for 1, though SimPy uses "process function" and "process method". The async frameworks are fine calling them Awaitable, but usually just mention coroutines.

Various names and variants exist for 2:

• Simpy: Process similar capabilities. Has a process.is_alive flag (similar to thread.is_alive()) and a process.value field
• asyncio: Task with similar capabilities. Supports explicit task.cancel(), task.done() flag, task.result() query and await task await-completion. The underlying Future supports await future wait-for-result.
• trio: Task only has the concurrency features. It does not support waiting, cancelling or retrieving results.
• curio: Task with similar capabilities, API is closer to threading.Thread. Supports task.cancel(), task.wait() await-completion, task.join() await-result.

from usim.

The Activity class has been renamed to Task in #2.

from usim.