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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by lootsauce on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @01:43AM (#12341656)

I don't know about others but the imposition of try catch for error handling in async/await seems to cut against the syntax gains over promises.

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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by nurettin on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:04AM (#12342110)

If by promises you mean the `some.fun(had).catch(had, function(){handle stuff here})` syntax compared to async/await, that is actually a very fair point and it does make two syntaxes similarly verbose.

However, it is still easier to follow a ladder of conditional statements using async/await compared to escher-style stairs of callbacks inside callbacks.

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