Replying to myself, since I can't edit my post anymore -- Futures and promises aren't unique to Clojure. For example, AliceML had them ages ago. After thinkin

Replying to myself, since I can't edit my post anymore -- Futures and promises aren't unique to Clojure. For example, AliceML had them ages ago. After thinking it over, I'm going try implementing them for my ExtCore library for F# (https://github.com/jack-pappas/ExtCore https://github.com/jack-pappas/ExtCore). Thanks to the GP for the idea.