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Yes! Using `sans-async` must NOT diminish our productivity in comparison with `async` counterpart.

> at some point, coding event loops became very natural/comfortable for me

In fact it is, I'm very happy with it too.

> one nice thing about rust's async/await is, you don't have to use it, and if you don't, you don't pay for it in any way.

You've said it!