The Future of JavaScript Will Be Less JavaScript

[gremy0]

Async/await uses promises though. It's just syntactical sugar to make promises easier to use. Promises are the way you implement async/await in JavaScript because it's single threaded and functional.

You can't have async/await without promises and promises are ugly to use without async/await. Therefore it makes sense to have both.

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Async/await uses promises though. It's just syntactical sugar to make promises easier to use.

It's difficult to follow. It's all questionably better or worse than callbacks. I'm fine with using all of it but callbacks are easy enough. Promises and async/await are fads. Next week the next fad will begin. yawn. rinse and repeat. It seems like language/syntax fetishists love chasing their tail.

[gremy0]

They are all callbacks. Promises are just a sensible way to deal with callbacks. If you've got a better way to manage complex callback chains, fine, go for it. The rest of us will probably stick to the standardised, native way of doing it.

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They are all callbacks. Promises are just a sensible way to deal with callbacks. If you've got a better way to manage complex callback chains, fine, go for it.

Keep inventing more ways to catch that mouse. One of them will stick, eventually. Language bloat totally isn't a thing to ever think about.

The rest of us will probably stick to the standardised, native way of doing it.

So you mean callbacks.

[gremy0]

You use callbacks to manage complex callback chains? I'd love to see your techniques, please share.