> You have to understand that async programming is hard, and no matter how good the tooling is, it's going to make your code more difficult to manage. It has a high price.

Is it unfashionable to say that NodeJS got this right with > v7.6? It's always felt pretty straightforward to me but perhaps it just suits my mindset. It's only when I try to do this in other languages (e.g. Python or Ruby) that it starts to feel clunky.