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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What's wrong with async/await?
Do you dislike async/await? If so, why?
What benefits don't we get with async/await?
I can't wait for async/await enough myself.
What about this can't be done with async/await?
what are the issues with async/await?
Async/await largely solves that though.
I'm curious about your last point. What's the problem with async/await?
I can't quite see the need of this now we have async/await.
This whole thread would not exist when async await gets traction