I find myself wondering the same thing. async-await syntaxes make asynchronous functions work pretty much the same as synchronous ones syntactically. The only d

I find myself wondering the same thing. async-await syntaxes make asynchronous functions work pretty much the same as synchronous ones syntactically. The only drawback I can really think of is that you end up Futures going up the call stack. But this, again, seems to me to just be a detail. On the other hand, the benefits are really obvious control flow with implicit synchronization. Scala has shown that it's pretty easy to integrate asynchronous workflows with actors.