Comment by jerf

See my other post about the point. If you "just" turn an async back into a sync call by completely blocking the async scheduler, yes, you've turned the async call back into a sync call, but you've done that by completely eliminating async-ness. That's not a general solution. That is exactly what everyone back when Node was promoting this style spent paragraph upon paragraph warning you not to do, because it just punts by eliminating the asyncness entirely. "Async is great when you completely discard it" is not a winning argument for async... which is OK, because it's not the argument anyone is making.