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Re:Top-level await in JavaScript is a footgun by egeozcan on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:29PM (#12500434)
> in JavaScript you can have multiple scripts

You mean, you can embed multiple script elements in HTML? Yes. But allowing global await in ES spec means also enabling it in node.

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Re:Top-level await in JavaScript is a footgun by bmeck on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:23PM (#12500927)
or you could just do `import('a'); import('b');` to load `a` and `b` in parallel
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