Everything in the beam is "low-level" async with implicit yield points at function boundaries. Task.async just gives you a convenient future so you can get the

Everything in the beam is "low-level" async with implicit yield points at function boundaries. Task.async just gives you a convenient future so you can get the value back, instead of the beam throwing it away (goroutines also throw away the result). You could also write that boilerplate by hand. There are also other nice things that Task.async gives you but that's not relevant to this discussion. IOW, async/await in the BEAM is a high level thing (like goroutines) which is one of two reasonable choices, the other reasonable choice being "what zig did".