The ability to directly program for asynchronous phenomena is definitely worth it[0]. Something like scheduler activations, which imbues this into the threading

The ability to directly program for asynchronous phenomena is definitely worth it[0]. Something like scheduler activations, which imbues this into the threading interface, is just better than either construct without the other. The main downside is complexity; I think we will continuously improve on this but it will always be more complex than the inevitably-less-nimble synchronous version. Still, we got io_uring for a reason. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42221316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42221316