[robmccoll]

I just want a language where await is the default behavior and I have to specify when I want to capture a future as a value and do something with it later. Most of the time I want an emulation of a synchronous thread of execution even if it's actually async. It's crazy to have to constantly specify the common case and to have the possibility of surprising behavior at best if I accidentally forget to await something somewhere.

[zozbot234]

"T" and "impl Future<Output = T>" are very different types so unless you're doing very silly things I don't think you can be "surprised" in Rust. The fact that await points are explicitly marked and visible in the code is a feature, not a bug. It's similar to the case for "?" vs. hidden exceptions.