> I wonder why we went down that whole async/await craze with so many languages? For single-threaded event loops because most of those languages did not want t

> I wonder why we went down that whole async/await craze with so many languages? For single-threaded event loops because most of those languages did not want to put the concept of thread safety onto the developer (e.g. JS and Python). And even the ones that do concern the user w/ thread safety don't have an intermediate representation and VM to automatically sequence instructions (e.g. Rust).