I actually liked .NET async/await because it came with good usable libraries for async RDBMS operations tied into NT IO completion ports, easing a super common

I actually liked .NET async/await because it came with good usable libraries for async RDBMS operations tied into NT IO completion ports, easing a super common bottleneck; compare to other common RDBMS clients that might offer a facade of asynchrony but are really just blocking and queuing behind the curtain. The task library (TPL) is a smidgen wordy, as was MSFT's way about ten years back, most folks will never get deep into it though.