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Re:V8 adds support for top-level await by sieabahlpark on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:33AM (#21067627)
No one should be asynchronously executing code on import? I'd rather my code call a function to kick it off.
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Re:V8 adds support for top-level await by lewisl9029 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:36AM (#21067933)
Please, this.

Synchronous effectful imports are already are the source of so much frustration, and now we're adding asynchronicity to it?

Just export a init function and let your users choose when/where to run your effectful initialization code, sync or async.

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