I'm not a Haskeller and haven't played with monads knowing they were monads, but async in F# basically works like this: 1. Call the function with async { } blo

I'm not a Haskeller and haven't played with monads knowing they were monads, but async in F# basically works like this: 1. Call the function with async { } block and have it return a computation object 2. Start that computation object in three primary ways: a. On another thread, then wait (non-blocking) on it to finish b. On another thread but don't wait for it to finish c. On the current thread and don't wait for it to finish There's a lot more details but that's going to cover probably 95% of the use cases. My takeaways from it are: a. Super easy to write code for it that's easy to read b. Really hard to fuck it up In my opinion, it's superior to the model that C#/VB have ... and pretty much every other language I've tried async support on. Have yet to use Haskell for it.