You never "have" to await at the call site. There's very little stopping you from: fFuture = getAsync(); // do other things f = await fFuture; Most impl

You never "have" to await at the call site. There's very little stopping you from: fFuture = getAsync(); // do other things f = await fFuture; Most implementations of async/await Future/Task/Promise often have some sort of `all` combinator to multi-join as soon as all results arrive, even: fFuture = getFAsync(); gFuture = getGAsync(); hFuture = getHAsync(); // other stuff (f, g, h) = await all(fFuture, gFuture, hFuture); The syntax makes it really easy to do the simple step-by-step await at every call site, but it also doesn't stop you from writing more complex things. (Sometimes very much more complex things when you get into combinators like `all` and `race`.)