I agree with you that there's no escaping the fundamental way the DOM/JavaScript was setup in the first place - it's too late unfortunately, that ship sailed in

I agree with you that there's no escaping the fundamental way the DOM/JavaScript was setup in the first place - it's too late unfortunately, that ship sailed in the 90s apparently :). I can write at least an article about this stuff, but if you're interested in how core.async specifically helps at least mitigate some of the callback spaghetti hell here's a good starting video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhxcGGeh5ho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhxcGGeh5ho