@hundreds-father-404 FWIW https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/9841 is one of the reasons I kind of wanted all fields to be async. If we were in a less experimental place, if someone wanted to make dependencies be computed, it would’ve been a horrible breaking change to make dependencies an AsyncField, breaking a bunch of code for folks… Let’s imagine that in the future we decide that a binary’s entry_point should be determined by a rule inspecting its source files in some way - that’s going to be the same problem