Fair point. Async is a big enough idea that it probably warrants designing the language with it in mind. I guess another way of phrasing it would be that it vio

Fair point. Async is a big enough idea that it probably warrants designing the language with it in mind. I guess another way of phrasing it would be that it violates the "there's only one way to do it" maxim, and the "two ways of doing it" circumstance necessarily came about because the idea was discovered long after the core language and libraries were already written.