Yes, it's possible this indeed will be the default behavior at some later point. Some people don't like this since `unhandledRejection`s can be handled later o

Yes, it's possible this indeed will be the default behavior at some later point. Some people don't like this since `unhandledRejection`s can be handled later on at some point (for example, after a week of not adding a catch handler). There is a discussion here: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/830 https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/830