Elixir Tasks act closer to a very lightweight threadpool dispatch, rather than the coroutine style of async/await in other languages. An Elixir task doesn't, ii

Elixir Tasks act closer to a very lightweight threadpool dispatch, rather than the coroutine style of async/await in other languages. An Elixir task doesn't, iirc, share memory with other tasks and won't block if you make it spin. This makes it a hell of a lot easier to reason about.