I've recently discovered, and fallen in love with, the Deferred/Promise pattern used in jQuery. It just encapsulates so many async use cases, including the wonderful chaining, filtering ability, that I can't believe I missed it for so long.
I've just finished refactoring my AS3 code to use the excellent CodeCatalyst/promise-as3 library (https://github.com/CodeCatalyst/promise-as3), and so started thinking about going back to my C++ code and seeing how I could implement the pattern there.
Before I started coding this myself, I checked to see if it had been done before, and discovered the std::future
/std::promise
(and boost equivalents), but they are very heavy (they seem use real threads etc, and have a heavy template syntax).
So, my question is: Is there are lightweight, pure C++ implementation of the Deferred/Promise pattern, jQuery-style?
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