The point is to have a nicer API on top of these primitives, not to introduce new features into Emacs. async/await APIs are just a fancy abstraction over an ev

The point is to have a nicer API on top of these primitives, not to introduce new features into Emacs. async/await APIs are just a fancy abstraction over an event loop and callbacks and whatnot. Even just having "promises" would be a nice upgrade. Maybe it's just me but I find the current functions for doing non-blocking stuff very clunky and awkward.