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> But this mostly applies to JS which has a kickass implementation of async/await.

The fact that JS simply has no other options for doing anything concurrently, might have something to do with that.

Huh? It had other options longer than it had async/await. Async/await is a fairly recent addition. E.g. before fetch with async/await, there was XmlHTTPRequest with callbacks. It also had Web Workers as a means for parallel&concurrent processing for way longer than it had async/await.

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