[amw-zero]

What does this even mean, how can you do any form of modern computation without async?

[MrDarcy]

async / await as they exist in JavaScript, Python, and Rust aren’t the only way to execute tasks concurrently.

[amw-zero]

That’s what I’m asking - did the comment mean that the async/await pattern is bad, or that asynchronous programming in general is bad?

[worik]

asynchronous programming is the bee's knees, and my preferred mode

Asyc/await pretends to be synchronous and gets all tied in horrible knots when the sunk costs mount

Writing IO without blocking has always been second nature to me

[eureka-belief]

But they are a darn convenient mental model if you’re just trying to do some basic async. The alternatives are harder to wrap your head around. Unless I’m missing some other cool pattern.

[worik]

> Unless I’m missing some other cool pattern.

Explicit state machines