The way I look at it is as just another way of manipulating continuations, alongside conditional, loops, call/return, generators, coroutines, exceptions, etc. E

The way I look at it is as just another way of manipulating continuations, alongside conditional, loops, call/return, generators, coroutines, exceptions, etc. Even in some other hypothetical asynchronous paradigm, all those patterns still occur all over the place, so making them all composable with each other is a win. (Credit to http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2015/08/07/scoped-continuations/ http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2015/08/07/scoped-continuati... for describing it this way.) The surface syntax could maybe use some work- maybe make functions generic across asynchronicity, maybe swap `await` to being the default and explicitly mark the case where you want a reified Promise instead, etc. But in the end it's another valuable control structure.