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That statement also contains factual errors. async/await came from standard JS (as part of the harmony track of work) not from node.
by esprehn 4y ago
That statement also contains factual errors. async/await came from standard JS (as part of the harmony track of work) not from node.
- whizzter 4y agoYes, but I would hold that the impetus for pushing it through was from what people in the Node community was doing. Once the early code Node became actually used the callback pyramids of doom started gaining notoriety, there was even a small period before async/await where people abused generators achieve a similar style of code(The name of the Koa framework was a play on generator co-routines) ,luckily everyone migrated over afterwards.