EventStore async calls terminate program

Question

Why do these async calls terminate execution?

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var connectionstring = "esdb+discover://127.0.0.1:2113?tls=false";
    var settings = EventStoreClientSettings.Create(connectionstring);
    conn = new EventStoreClient(settings);
    Parse(); 
}

static async void Parse()
{
    var count = await GetEventCount("test@@test");
    // can not reach here ... program ends exit code 0...
}

public static async Task<int> GetEventCount(string streamname)
{
    var l = conn.ReadStreamAsync(Direction.Backwards, streamname, StreamPosition.Start);

    var count = 0; 
    await foreach (var item in l)
    {
        count++; 
    }

    return count;
}

Answer 1

You should await your async method. See also https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2013/march/async-await-best-practices-in-asynchronous-programming

static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            var connectionstring = "esdb+discover://127.0.0.1:2113?tls=false";
            var settings = EventStoreClientSettings.Create(connectionstring);
            conn = new EventStoreClient(settings);
            await ParseAsync(); 

}
static async Task ParseAsync()
        {
            var count = await GetEventCount("test@@test");
// can not reach here ... program ends exit code 0...

}
    public static async Task<int> GetEventCount(string streamname)
        {
            var l = conn.ReadStreamAsync(Direction.Backwards, streamname, StreamPosition.Start);

            var count = 0; 
            await foreach (var item in l)
            {
                count++; 
            }

            return count;
        }