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This paper presents a design space exploration of straight-line asynchrony in programming languages, examining how async/await implementations vary across languages and their semantic consequences.
The article examines how async/await syntax, while easy to write, creates significant complexity in production by conflating asynchrony with concurrency, often requiring manual partitioning of I/O and compute tasks across separate runtimes like Tokio and Rayon, leading to latency spikes and system instability.
An educational blog post explaining the concept of algebraic effects in programming, using analogies to try/catch and async/await, and discussing their potential relevance to React and future programming paradigms.
ClojureScript 1.12.145 introduces native async function support via the ^:async hint, enabling direct JavaScript async/await interop without additional dependencies.