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Async runtimes are just wrappers around the underlying async technology, like epoll, kqueue and io_uring.

They give structure in a similar way if/for/while put structure around the underlying PC jumps.



Yes, but they also introduce a lot of complexity to the developer experience. It is turtles all the way down with async code, as they say




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