I agree that top-level await is weird. But the bigger issue is that importing stuff shouldn't be an imperative statement ("load the code at such-and-such addres

I agree that top-level await is weird. But the bigger issue is that importing stuff shouldn't be an imperative statement ("load the code at such-and-such address"). That's marrying the language to irrelevant details of how it's parsed and executed. Instead, import should be a static construct that can get special treatment from interpreters and compilers. Header files in C are another instance of the same mistake ("let's make imports work by textual inclusion"). Such tricks can save time in the short run, but a proper module system like Java's is always better in the end.