super cool idea, but definitely one that has been considered in by many (especially the node.js community). Kudos for taking a pass at it! Note that if you ass

super cool idea, but definitely one that has been considered in by many (especially the node.js community). Kudos for taking a pass at it! Note that if you assume everything is async, using a synchronous call is no problem. It's going the other way (as illustrated in the post) that is tricky. Maybe we need to make async in general more common/simple?