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If you run an await as a first thing in the top-level, you have nothing in the event loop to run. Await blocks everything after itself, and that is very dangero

If you run an await as a first thing in the top-level, you have nothing in the event loop to run. Await blocks everything after itself, and that is very dangerous if done on the top-level.

BinaryIdiot 10y ago
In that script, yes. But in JavaScript you can have multiple scripts :)
- egeozcan 10y ago
  > in JavaScript you can have multiple scripts You mean, you can embed multiple script elements in HTML? Yes. But allowing global await in ES spec means also enabling it in node.
  - bmeck 10y ago
    or you could just do `import('a'); import('b');` to load `a` and `b` in parallel