In my experience a missing await is the most common bug. Inadvertently run something in the background for an instant race condition, and hard to find. I think

In my experience a missing await is the most common bug. Inadvertently run something in the background for an instant race condition, and hard to find. I think there should be no default for how to call an async function from another async function. Both waiting for a response and not waiting (starting a "background task") should be acknowledged in the code. Perhaps not allowing a promise return value to be silently dropped would be enough. Sync functions are easy in comparison. Edit: I guess there is a lint rule: https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/require-await/ https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/require-await/