It’s good for firing off an async function in sync contexts, like for example a fetch request with side-effects being called by React‘s useEffect hook. That‘s

It’s good for firing off an async function in sync contexts, like for example a fetch request with side-effects being called by React‘s useEffect hook. That‘s the only context where I found any value for it though, and its usefulness is only in describing that we really don’t care if it finishes or not (since handling that case will happen somewhere else) directly in the function call.