Best practice for using with Futures?

[charlesbthomas]

Say one has some code that still uses futures but wanted to begin using direct style concurrency.

What is the recommended and safest way to unbox the Future in a way that does not end up blocking an OS thread? Should I use a channel?

[adamw]

Just block on the future - we even have an util for that. As long as you are on threads that are Ox-managed, they will be virtual, so you won't block OS threads.