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Oh yes! These are amazing. Took me a while to understand what they do, but now the simplest way I think of it is that they're powerful enough to let you build your own async/await (though you don't need to - async await computation expressions are already included)

This is just monadic bind, every functional language has this

F# computation expressions go well beyond notation for monadic bind, see the section in https://fsharp.org/history or other technical descriptions.

Computation expressions seem like one of F#'s unique features. I assume there are corollaries in other languages - but damn do they make code readable.

Interesting. But is it true that that is nothing like that in other languages?

They are a bit like do-notation in Haskell, but with a few extra things. They are also like a more restricted / opinionated version of Clojure macros.

What's really cool is that things like ```async function *``` from JS can be implemented as libraries in F#.