This tracker is for issues related to: dart:async

Right now if you have the unawaited_futures linter turned on there isn't a way to not await an asynchronous operation without using linter ignores. Ideally there should be a way to explicitly disregard the asynchronous operation without resorting to using ignores or going for implicitly discarded futures.

For example:

Future<void> bar() {...}
void foo() {
  bar(); # linter error
}

becomes:

Future<void> bar() {...}
void foo() {
  bar().discard();
}

While one could create an extension method for future, it wouldn't be that helpful unless the autofix tools for linter errors suggested using discard(). For that it as to be built into the dart sdk.