I think this article justifies 'simpler' as more than just "characters to write". Rust is a fairly different language in that it isn't GC'd, and the async/await

I think this article justifies 'simpler' as more than just "characters to write". Rust is a fairly different language in that it isn't GC'd, and the async/await sugar really alleviates a lot of pain around that (among other things). As for calling async from sync, I imagine you just create a runtime and block on it.