The Task component provides a cross-platform API around std::thread with some additional configuration of stack size, priority, and core affinity for FreeRTOS / ESP, as well as providing a callback API which enables interruptible sleeps and termination of the task.

It also supports firing off syncrhonous (blocking) and asynchronous (non-blocking) functions in separate threads, with the option of configuring the core id and other esp-specific paramters.

The example shows some various different ways of starting and stopping tasks, as well as examples of how to wait, block, exit early, and run long-running computations within tasks using the task component.