It’s also very directly related the to “effectively standard” (but not included) async library in Haskell.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/async

The package description at the top of the link touches on the motivations which basically mirror this article.

I’ve personally never reached for the built in forkIO. withAsync or it’s helpers like mapConcurrently are always equally capable, easier to use, and with none of the foot guns.