Task scheduling and yielding. Provides Roblox-shape wait, spawn, defer, delay on top of the VM's coroutine scheduler. Exposed both at the task table and as globals.
Schedules callback to run after at least duration seconds. Extra arguments are forwarded to the callback.
| duration | number | Delay in seconds. |
| callback | function | Function to call. |
| ...args | ...any | Arguments forwarded to the callback. |
Calls callback immediately in a new thread with the given arguments.
| callback | function | Function to call. |
| ...args | ...any | Arguments forwarded to the callback. |
Schedules callback to run at the end of the current resumption cycle. Extra arguments are forwarded to the callback.
| callback | function | Function to call. |
| ...args | ...any | Arguments forwarded to the callback. |
Yields the calling thread for at least duration seconds. Returns the actual elapsed time.
| duration | number? | Duration in seconds (default 0). |
Cancels a thread and resets it so it can no longer be resumed. The thread must be suspended, finished, or errored, and a thread cannot cancel itself. Returns true if it was cleanly cancelled, or false plus the thread's error message if it had already failed.
close| thread | thread | The thread to cancel. |