> It's more like sugar over state machines instead of sugar over callbacks they are equivalent [1]. There are scheme compilers (a language with have first clas

> It's more like sugar over state machines instead of sugar over callbacks they are equivalent [1]. There are scheme compilers (a language with have first class continuations and often heap allocated stack frames) that compile everything down to a giant C switch statement. [1] well, continuations are strictly more powerful of course, but the stackless subset needed for async/await is the same.