Writing state machines by hand is a nightmare and exactly the kind of transformation a compiler should do for you — which is all await really is.

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• Writing is how the thinking gets done, so a writer who hands the words to a machine has given away the part that mattered. MKMartin Kleppmann22 Apr 2026similar wording

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