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Yeah - I was limiting my post to explicit async/await. Don Syme, creator of F#, had a nice thread on the roots of async/await, though it doesn't mention do-not

• sideeffffect 5y ago
  F#'s "Computation expressions" are the same sort of thing as the mentioned Haskell's "do notation" and Scala's "for comprehension". They're just thin syntactic sugar for "callbacks" -- chaining maps/binds/flatmaps/etc. Even though F#'s "Computation expressions" are very cleverly thought out and more general. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-reference/computation-expressions https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-refe... Async/await for example in C# or Rust is different. This translates the program into transition automata/coroutines.