Make debounce work with asynchronous function #6351
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Motivation
The async package provides helper functions for asynchronous operations, yet the debounce function does not work with asynchronous functions. Since these functions are commonly the most valuable functions to debounce, It makes sense to design debounce to support asynchrony.
This also allows us to return a value from debounce.
Solution
Caveat: I wrote this in the GitHub editor quickly before bed, it probably has a type error I missed somewhere -- will fix it tomorrow, but worth a general review in the meantime so I can include the feedback when I look at it tomorrow evening (Australian timezone).