My understanding is not that promises weren't valued, but that there were conflicting opinions on how to implement them, so promises were left in user land, in

My understanding is not that promises weren't valued, but that there were conflicting opinions on how to implement them, so promises were left in user land, in hopes that the community would vet a better solution than could be prescribed by the node team. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nodejs/jaufClrXU9U/ov5WHIk7SAwJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nodejs/jaufClrXU9U/ov5... q seems to be a popular choice. https://github.com/kriskowal/q https://github.com/kriskowal/q