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@dougmerritt @munificent my worst gripe with async/await is that it starts permeating your code base, and by the time it hits my business logic, which (with the languages I tried, at least) inexplicably always happens, steam starts coming out of my ears. I'm strongly in favor of the Erlang/Elixir solution. It'll block on I/O, but that's fine, because it's only blocking a single process and thousands or millions of others are doing useful work. I've always had the feeling that solving this by slapping low level keywords onto existing languages is the wrong solution. Erlang solves it in the VM, and probably by rethinking what an OS in 2026 should do one can find even better options "down there".