Comment by troupo

> They're trying to shoehorn async calls into an inherently synchronous structure.

You can make any async system synchronous. It's much harder to mske a sync sydtem asynchronous. (Misquoting from something Erlang-related).

There are many cases when I don't care if a function call is asynchronous. I'm happy to wait for the result. Yet too many systems tell me I can't, for no good reason.