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There's a tiny benefit of the doubt to be given here that while async/await is several years old, support for "top-level await" was only more recently standardi

There's a tiny benefit of the doubt to be given here that while async/await is several years old, support for "top-level await" was only more recently standardized and took too long for common LTS versions of Node to also support it. All of these examples appear to be top-level and perhaps they didn't want to write them as async functions or IIFEs, especially for error-handling code.

hot_gril 3y ago
That makes sense, someone copy-pasting async code into a JS console would get errors not too long ago. There's nobody to blame for this but myself, just wish I discovered earlier on how async/await works, along with other modern JS stuff that you won't see everywhere because it's new.