For me, the main benefit would be the ability to use a concurrency model other than the event loop. In Elixir, I can reason about the code being run in one pro

For me, the main benefit would be the ability to use a concurrency model other than the event loop. In Elixir, I can reason about the code being run in one process as though it were synchronous, because it kind of is. But I can do that without blocking anything else, which is also pretty important.