My two cents

[Kagamin]

On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 04:26:42 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> (at the end of the day all of these programming models are 
> callback based).

That's what APM is, no?

> Yes, C#'s async design does make code look and feel 
> synchronous, and it was intentionally designed that way, but 
> that is not *why* they did Async.

You can do APM in .net 4.0 with tasks and callbacks (we do it at 
work), the only purpose of async/await is to make it look nice 
and synchronous.