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That’s not true. If I await a web request in some random function, it will still be asynchronous as long as the random function is invoked asynchronously.
I would say the moment you slap
awaitin there, the code is no longer asynchronous. It's blocking as any other line.That’s not true. If I await a web request in some random function, it will still be asynchronous as long as the random function is invoked asynchronously.
Try doing two awaits in a row and check if they run concurrently. This is the definition of synchronous.