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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. zelphirkalt ◴[04 Sep 25 09:25 UTC] No.45125293[source]▶

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Somehow I prefer the explicitness of Promise.then().catch(). When I have to do JS. Am I the only one?

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