i guess when you have multiple suspend functions that you want to wait for simultaneously, and/or they are long-running?

So, if you wanted to issue two network requests at the same time, then wait for both to complete, you could start them both in their own

async

blocks, then await on both of the returned Deferreds

most of my async knowledge comes from nodejs callbacks, so i still think that way heavily

withContext

should commonly be used instead, when you invoke

await

immediately anyway