> What exactly are we going to sit there and do while waiting on the data we need to fulfill a query? Fulfil more/other queries. > ...in something statically

> What exactly are we going to sit there and do while waiting on the data we need to fulfill a query? Fulfil more/other queries. > ...in something statically typed, they just don't seem like a problem. What has static typing got to do with asynchronous IO?