is there a way to read from a channel outside a go block?

nevermind

<!!

not sure about take! need to look it up...

yep, <!! and take!

Having fun with core.async here: https://github.com/decomplect/ion/blob/master/src/ion/poly/core.cljs

they don’t work in cljs

but I found a workaround

more like: I refactored the design of my code.