It's not really a JS issue here, just the ZS project decided to make `$` function async (for some good reason I'd think) but they could have gone the other way

It's not really a JS issue here, just the ZS project decided to make `$` function async (for some good reason I'd think) but they could have gone the other way and make it synchronous by default. I don't believe this is a language specific choice, they could have done the same with C#