I found this comment enlightening: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/send-off#example-59347211e4b06e730307db22 https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/send-off#

I found this comment enlightening: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/send-off#example-59347211e4b06e730307db22 https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/send-off#example-593472... It seems like there are a lot of parallels between agents and core.async. Agents, like go blocks, run in a thread pool. Any blocking IO should be pushed off to a separate thread outside of the thread pool. In the case of agents, there is (send-off). In the case of core.async, there is (thread)