Simple thread instance in GDScript

[schweigert]

Many languages have a reserved word to start asynchronous code snippets. It would be a good idea to have this word in gdScript.

func _ready():
    var thread = spawn my_method(1, 2, 3)
    # This is the same of Thread.new(....)
    var no_thread = my_method(1, 2, 3)

func my_method(a, b, c):
    # do work
    pass

@OvermindDL1 suggest spawn word.

This issue is a suggestion to resolve #9924.

[OvermindDL1]

A new thread is parallelism, not asynchronousness (which is more of what coroutines are).

[OvermindDL1]

spawn or something would be more accurate, not async as that is an entirely different concept.

[clayjohn]

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