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Definitely play with the exception handling. Latent bugs aside, asynchronous statements (wait fors) work in any crazy horrible nested combination of ifs, fors (parallel or series), and trys that you can think of. Take a look at the JS output with:

kal -o output.js -f beautify input.kal

to see the sausages being made. The http server demo is a good example (https://github.com/rzimmerman/kal/blob/master/examples/async...)

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A side-by-side line-by-line interactive display would be wonderful in writing Kal. Reading the JS explains what it's doing quite well, except that the Kal compiler uses way too many compound comma-separated statements instead of semicolons.

That's actually a side effect of uglify.js's beautify, I believe. I'm going to try to get rid of that in upcoming releases.

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