It didn't, async await is just syntactic sugar on top of coroutines/futures. You can define an sync function and get a coroutine back if you call it without awa

It didn't, async await is just syntactic sugar on top of coroutines/futures. You can define an sync function and get a coroutine back if you call it without await. It's still kind of a mess though because you have two universes that are not really compatible, forcing you to rewrite everything that touches IO. For django that probably means a rewrite of the ORM, caching and middlewares.