Async/Await Debates

This cluster centers on discussions questioning the drawbacks, benefits, and alternatives to async/await syntax in programming languages, including comparisons to callbacks, generators, goroutines, and implementations in JS, Python, Go, and others.

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modarts May 24, 2017 View on HN

What's wrong with async/await?

drenvuk Jan 12, 2022 View on HN

Do you dislike async/await? If so, why?

mschuetz Apr 8, 2019 View on HN

What benefits don't we get with async/await?

sotojuan Nov 23, 2015 View on HN

I can't wait for async/await enough myself.

neolog Oct 29, 2020 View on HN

What about this can't be done with async/await?

fnord77 Aug 20, 2023 View on HN

what are the issues with async/await?

josteink Jan 1, 2020 View on HN

Async/await largely solves that though.

mardifoufs Sep 8, 2022 View on HN

I'm curious about your last point. What's the problem with async/await?

nialv7 May 24, 2017 View on HN

I can't quite see the need of this now we have async/await.

arisAlexis Aug 23, 2016 View on HN

This whole thread would not exist when async await gets traction