 <p>Scala has implemented also the async/await paradigm, which can simplify some algorithms.</p> <p>Here is the proposal: <a href="http://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/pending/async.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/pending/async.html</a></p> <p>Here is the implementation: <a href="https://github.com/scala/async" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/scala/async</a></p>