Well, you can block on it if you want That said, I disagree on the usefulness of async: in my experience it does the job and it's my default setup. There's a

Well, you can block on it if you want That said, I disagree on the usefulness of async: in my experience it does the job and it's my default setup. There's a complex project where I ended up just using threads because I needed to squeeze performance out but overall async is great for tasks, sequence of async operations. Still, it had some rough edges: (it's been a while but) using Async Closures wasn't pleasant and I re architected my app to not use them as a result. There's an argument to be made for this change making my application easier to reason about - but overall it's poor language flexibility.