Task Cancellation Pattern

✅ The Task Cancellation Pattern enables applications to stop long-running tasks cleanly and predictably, without causing unwanted side effects like memory leaks or incomplete operations. It enhances control over asynchronous operations, making it highly useful in applications with multiple background tasks or where user interactions might require a task to be halted.

💡Instead of forcefully terminating the task, the task itself determines when to exit, ensuring no resources are leaked or in an inconsistent state.

💡The pattern is thread-safe since cancellation is cooperative; the task has full control over how and when it stops.

💡For long-running tasks, the ability to cancel operations mid-execution improves overall application responsiveness, especially in UI or real-time applications.