I didn't really get it until I watched Ander's original keynote on it. To appreciate async and await, you have to go through the exercise of converting some sy

I didn't really get it until I watched Ander's original keynote on it. To appreciate async and await, you have to go through the exercise of converting some synchronous code to an event driven model with callbacks. Then do it using async/await. It's more syntactic sugar than anything. I appreciate it in how I appreciate the dynamic keyword. I know how to dynamically Invoke() methods at runtime using reflection. It's a lot of boilerplate and ceremony, and the dynamic keyword helps alleviate that.