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Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

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320 points willm | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 17:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tripletpeaks ◴[02 Sep 25 17:39 UTC] No.45106417[source]▶
It’s probably related to the fact that when they added “await” to JavaScript, it seemed to become the most popular keyword in the language overnight, just comical amounts of it in the average new JavaScript file in the wild.
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1. lelanthran ◴[02 Sep 25 21:25 UTC] No.45109265[source]▶
Quite a lot of my js functions don't await; instead I simply return the promise and let the caller `await` or more often attach a `then` as they see fit.

The default linter in Vs Code keeps marking those functions with warnings though. Says I should mark them as async