I agree it's always left a bag taste in my mouth. I loved generators and yield/yield from, but I was stuck on 2.7 for a long time so I never quite understood th

I agree it's always left a bag taste in my mouth. I loved generators and yield/yield from, but I was stuck on 2.7 for a long time so I never quite understood the motivation for async/await over them. One issue is that it "reifys" the "colored function" problem that green threads like goroutines don't have! Side note: Java world is working on green threads/fibers for the JVM in Project Loom. [0]: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.html http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.htm...