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<@U0BNGCVCK> You ignore the resulting future (`Deferred`). That is why. 

elizarov: I was actually just thinking about putting together a presentation for my team on exceptions and exception _currying_ with coroutines. It seems to be an issue of much confusion in my team.

--not that futures seem much better. We have seen a couple of suppressed errors from not properly handling a future's return (aka completed) value

That is why I strongly recommend against using `async` unless you really need to do something concurrently. Unfortunately, for most people, `async` and futures is all they've heard about. Bad favor from other languages we have here. 