That's what pains me about JS: there's this meme of being unable to use threads, but it's OK, because threads are bad and scary. Thus, promises must be good. A

That's what pains me about JS: there's this meme of being unable to use threads, but it's OK, because threads are bad and scary. Thus, promises must be good. Async/await is beautiful: compiler produces CPS, but logical control flow remains exactly as you'd expect. One slight reservation: the async specifier seems to pollute the entire call tree of otherwise un-related code.