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Re:Ask HN: Why can't await be used from non-async functions? by darklion on Monday February 28, 2022 @01:36PM (#30503283)
Unfortunately, there are problems with both of those approaches: https://github.com/davidfowl/AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios/b...

I don't know if it extends to other language implementations, but C# does not seem to have a reliable sync-over-async story.

Re:Ask HN: Why can't await be used from non-async functions? by tragictrash on Monday February 28, 2022 @02:27PM (#30503908)
Seems pretty standard to me. Every platform has problems just like this, nothing new there afaik.