The use case is not needing to wrap your code in an IIFE [1] when you would have a top-level await statement. It is useful in entry point of apps where you migh

The use case is not needing to wrap your code in an IIFE [1] when you would have a top-level await statement. It is useful in entry point of apps where you might need anything that uses async. It's also useful for having async modules. [2] They're also very helpful for debugging. Using await something in the console is way more convenient than something.then(). [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/IIFE https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/IIFE [2] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-top-level-await/blob/HEAD/README.md https://github.com/tc39/proposal-top-level-await/blob/HEAD/R...